The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast of The Load Seaters, episode 1299 for Wednesday the 19th of November

00:00:07.160 2025. I'm your host Luca, joined today by Harry and Carl. Hello. And today we're going to be

00:00:13.480 talking all about Thomas Massey having a major win with the Epstein Files release. We're then

00:00:20.400 going to be talking about what's been happening with the Muslims and Christians over in Dearborn

00:00:26.360 in Michigan. And then we're going to be wrapping things up about talking about all of the unironic,

00:00:31.780 I'm sure, wonderful benefits of diversity and the melting pot. Yeah, we'll catch up on how the

00:00:36.740 melting pot's doing. Excellent. All right, so with all that said, no announcements, over to you Harry.

00:00:42.580 All right then, so this is a further development in the Epstein Files case which has turned into a

00:00:47.360 huge circus since the beginning of the year when we were kind of all just hoping that it would be

00:00:51.560 released without a massive fuss. And then the administration flip-flopped back and forth over

00:00:56.760 whether they were going to release anything. There was last week... It's on my desk, Harry.

00:01:00.940 It's on your desk. But I thought they don't exist. It's a Democrat hoax except until we released a

00:01:07.820 load of these emails, which was what happened last week, last Wednesday on the 12th of November,

00:01:13.660 the Oversight Committee, which I believe is mainly run by Democrats in the House of Representatives,

00:01:19.520 released a load of pages of documents received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. You can click

00:01:26.160 on them and go to them. It takes you to a Google Drive. I tried to go through it, but it's massively

00:01:30.720 disorganized and kind of a pain in the arse to find anything in there. There's loads of stuff in

00:01:36.220 there. People have been making lots of articles and pieces about what is in there, but it's kind

00:01:41.260 of a pain in the arse to try and find anything specific in there. There was deflections going on

00:01:47.060 at the time. This was from the official White House page on Twitter, saying,

00:01:52.120 let's talk about the Republican Party's record-setting achievements and not fall into the Epstein trap,

00:01:58.200 which is actually a curse on the Democrats. Not us. Make America great again with this massive

00:02:03.100 wallow text that was posted on the Truth Social account of Donald Trump. I miss when he was witty.

00:02:10.780 I miss when it was just snappy witticisms thrown out there that really got everybody going.

00:02:17.200 Quiet piggy. Yeah. Just like, cut through. Stuff like that was great, but now he's just

00:02:22.060 started doing these wallow texts. He's, like, thankfully didn't post this one with the,

00:02:27.480 thank you for your attention on this matter. That's kind of annoying that he does these days.

00:02:31.400 But he's lost some of the charm with stuff like this, especially when he's like,

00:02:34.680 the Republican Party's record-setting achievements this year. Which ones?

00:02:38.760 Well, I mean, shutting the border. That's the only one that I can really

00:02:43.280 give two thumbs up to. I can imagine that there are a lot of people who are pro the tariffs.

00:02:50.560 That's fair, but still, it seems like deflection. The attempt at Doge is unnoble,

00:02:56.560 even if it didn't really go anywhere. I mean, there are a bunch of things they've done that I do like.

00:03:00.820 That's fair. That's fair. Still, though, for all of the things that were promised and either

00:03:05.560 haven't happened or have been gone back on, the Epstein files being the most notable one.

00:03:10.820 Yeah, he shouldn't have said that he was going to release them.

00:03:12.540 Yeah, people were, people are a little bit understandable to want to figure out what's

00:03:18.480 going on here. There were the further deflections. This was all spoken about on Monday when he was

00:03:22.540 trying to call out Thomas Massey, who is the guy at the front of this particular story as one of the

00:03:28.420 co-sponsors of the Epstein Transparency Bill, which has just passed, where Donald Trump was saying

00:03:35.000 that, yeah, you're a terrible reporter for asking me questions about this. Thomas Massey's approval

00:03:41.540 ratings are down the toilet. He should be talking, he should be getting on board with the Republican

00:03:45.420 agenda. Bloody, bloody, blah. He just sounds like he is deflecting and scared of the subject.

00:03:50.400 He is.

00:03:50.660 Which he is again, now, flip-flopped back on in the past day. And this was the, this, from

00:03:58.440 the emails that were released last week, this was the big thing that people were talking

00:04:01.860 about.

00:04:02.120 Yeah, the internet had fun with this.

00:04:03.800 This email exchange between Mark Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein, where, yeah, people were having

00:04:09.840 a lot of fun with this particular bit where he said, ask Putin if he has the photos of

00:04:16.640 Trump blowing Bubba. And who is Bubba? Bubba was supposedly the nickname of Bill Clinton,

00:04:22.760 which sent a lot of people going like, oh my, oh my God. What's going on here?

00:04:30.100 It's when they were putting out, sorry, just old tweets of, um, like Trump saying things

00:04:34.960 like, yeah, Hillary just doesn't know how to look after Bill or stuff like that. Like, 1.00

00:04:39.800 what did he mean by this?

00:04:41.200 I think back to the Hillary Clinton one of, on this date, um, Bill Clinton will have the

00:04:46.220 privilege of sleeping in bed with the next president of the United States.

00:04:53.240 Was this prophecy?

00:04:54.540 I just can't believe Bill Clinton's game, man. Like, he's getting it from everyone,

00:04:59.360 everywhere, all the time. How does he do it?

00:05:02.860 It's the Irish charm.

00:05:04.440 Absolute stud, I mean.

00:05:05.920 Clearly it is. This, this has been clarified that Mark Epstein has now said that this was,

00:05:11.320 this was not a reference to Bill Clinton.

00:05:14.240 Oh, wasn't it? It was a different Bubba.

00:05:16.200 This was just a completely different Bubba. He has said that he has declined to otherwise

00:05:21.020 identify who this Bubba was. Personally, I think this was probably just like, like, bro talk.

00:05:27.580 Like, having a joke.

00:05:28.740 Who knows? Who, who knows? But it might have just been them, like, being funny.

00:05:33.280 The point is as well, that regardless of what, you can speculate to the end of the day about

00:05:37.240 what is the truth of it, but the internet is never going to forget this. This is just something

00:05:40.800 now that is going to stick with these two people forever.

00:05:43.000 Everybody did start immediately pointing out Donald Trump's, you know, dance moves that

00:05:48.120 he likes doing. Oh, somebody's going to gif that.

00:05:50.580 Yeah, I was going to say, that's clipped.

00:05:53.360 There you go. You can, that will be at the end of the next Lotus Eaters out of context.

00:05:57.860 Yes, it will.

00:05:58.520 There you go. You can have that on loop.

00:06:00.040 But this is mainly relating to now Thomas Massey's co-sponsored bill that has passed,

00:06:06.640 which is the Epstein Files Transparency Act. You can see the summation of it here,

00:06:12.220 and you can also find the full text of it here. Can I just go out of my way to say thank you,

00:06:17.100 Thomas Massey, for making it so that the full text of this paper is only about a page and a half long?

00:06:23.120 Oh, thank God.

00:06:23.660 He's coming here from the, um, from the, uh, Paul, uh, which one was it? Not Rand Paul.

00:06:29.580 I've forgotten his name all of a sudden.

00:06:30.780 Ron Paul?

00:06:31.200 Yeah, he's coming at it from the Ron Paul School of Legislation.

00:06:35.520 I hate, I hate when they do those gargantuan bills, and it's like, this is like 5,000 pages

00:06:39.600 long and nobody has read it, and it's just cramming in BS.

00:06:42.220 Yeah, and we have hidden the load of stuff in it that's going to ruin the economy.

00:06:45.320 Either way, so the summary of it is that the bill requires the Department of Justice

00:06:49.580 to publish in searchable and downloadable format, which is nice compared to the Google Drive

00:06:55.380 drops that happen where you can't search for anything. You have to just go through it

00:06:59.220 text by text, or, uh, or document by document and hope that you find something. No, they're

00:07:04.320 saying it has to be searchable, so if you want to search for a particular name, for instance,

00:07:08.200 you'll be able to do that. It's to publish all unclassified records, documents, communications,

00:07:13.820 and investigative materials in the DOJ's possession that relate to the investigation and prosecution

00:07:19.000 of Jeffrey Epstein. I would imagine this also goes back to the 2007-2008 prosecutions

00:07:25.820 and cases against him as well. This includes, one, materials that relate to Ghislaine Maxwell,

00:07:31.460 two, flight logs and travel records, and three, individuals named or referenced, including

00:07:35.560 government officials, in connection with the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:07:40.340 So we're hoping that through a lot of this, things like Alex Acosta saying that he had

00:07:45.240 been given information that Jeffrey Epstein was attached to the intelligence community,

00:07:49.740 which is why he was given the sweetheart deal in 2008. We're hoping that information like

00:07:54.660 that will finally be clarified through this information drop that we are expecting now.

00:08:00.060 The DOJ is permitted to withhold certain information, such as the personal information of victims and

00:08:06.040 materials that would jeopardize an active federal investigation. But that does have some

00:08:12.220 clarification within the document itself, within this bill. And it finishes in the summary saying,

00:08:17.640 additionally, no later than 15 days after the required publication, DOJ must report to Congress,

00:08:23.460 one, all categories of information released and withheld, two, a summary of any redactions made.

00:08:30.060 And the bill is actually quite strict on how you redact things and whether you can redact things,

00:08:36.020 which will be interesting to see how the administration tries to work around that. And three,

00:08:41.500 a list of all government officials and politically exposed individuals named or referenced in the

00:08:48.420 published materials. Because that's one of the things that people are so upset about at the moment,

00:08:52.220 which is that you can say, well, we've released all of these emails, we've released this,

00:08:55.540 and we've released that, but we want the specific names of who is incriminated by all of this

00:09:01.820 information. And further, just to clarify a few things within the bill itself. So for instance,

00:09:08.120 with the redacted information permitted withholdings, the Attorney General may withhold or redact the

00:09:14.020 segregable portions of records that contain personally identifiable information of victims or victims'

00:09:21.320 personal and medical files and similar files, the disclosure of which could,

00:09:25.540 would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. It's a lot of stuff that you

00:09:30.720 would expect and is quite common sense. I mean, good on this one. You know, obviously any graphic

00:09:36.480 material should be redacted because that was one of the reasons they didn't want to release it. Oh,

00:09:41.040 you don't want to release this too. So just redact that. It's all CP. Well, Thomas Massey,

00:09:45.460 that was one of the criticisms that Massey got and referred to in some of the speeches where he said

00:09:49.360 that they're saying that this won't protect against the release of CP. It's literally in the bill.

00:09:53.960 Yeah, literally, you can redact that bit. That's totally fine. Obviously. And any awful images

00:09:59.140 of death, physical abuse or anything else. But when it comes to the ongoing prosecutions and

00:10:04.920 investigations, it has a provision here. Provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and

00:10:12.640 temporary. Good. And it says here as well, all redactions must be accompanied by a written

00:10:18.780 justification. Okay. Published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress. So you have

00:10:24.760 to justify it. You have to be transparent with it. You can't just release an entire page of black 0.86

00:10:30.160 ink. Like they've done previously. Like they did in the first wave. Yes. Which was pointless because

00:10:35.420 those were already documents that we had where they just blacked out all the information that we

00:10:39.120 already had. Yeah. Very, very strange. And again, you've got all of this stuff where you've got the

00:10:44.160 categories of records released and withheld. Summary of redaction made, including the legal

00:10:49.040 basis and these names. And it all needs to be purely, it needs to be easily searchable.

00:10:55.540 Spectacular.

00:10:55.820 So for such a short bill, it covers all of its bases.

00:11:00.000 Yeah. I can't think of anything that's left out.

00:11:01.680 Yeah. Quite well. And this caused some controversy because a lot of people like...

00:11:08.540 Are implicated in this and are going to go down for it maybe?

00:11:11.200 Potentially. Potentially. I don't know why you would think such a thing.

00:11:15.780 Why would I think that?

00:11:16.700 But people do seem upset, particularly Mike Johnson, the House Speaker.

00:11:20.660 Oh, really?

00:11:21.200 Was very against this for a number of different reasons. And Thomas Massey, before the vote

00:11:27.460 went ahead, made a little speech where I think the most important and powerful part is at the

00:11:35.140 end here. I'll skip to about 15 minutes in.

00:11:37.940 Gentleman from Kentucky is right. Gentleman has five and a half minutes.

00:11:40.620 That is so. And we've had a lot of good men doing a lot of nothing on the other side of

00:11:46.520 the aisle. Until we did something. Three brave women and myself and the Democrat caucus.

00:11:52.240 We did something. And then what did they do? They've opposed us every step of the way.

00:11:56.200 They've lied about the legislation. Let me tell you some of the lies they've told.

00:12:00.820 They've said that it doesn't protect victims. Well, if that is so, why were dozens of victims

00:12:06.400 with us today at a press conference urging this body to pass this legislation?

00:12:12.300 It's because this legislation specifically protects victims. They've said this legislation

00:12:17.240 does not prevent the release of child pornography. Of course it does. We have a specific provision

00:12:24.420 in our legislation to prevent that. They've said so many falsehoods about this legislation, but now

00:12:29.840 they're going to vote for it. Hopefully, enthusiastically. But really, they've been drug to this.

00:12:36.060 Our judicial system is broken. If it were working, there wouldn't be a thousand victims who haven't

00:12:42.060 seen justice yet. They are victims of the Epstein class. I begrudge nobody's success that they become a

00:12:50.980 billionaire. But if you think being a billionaire or buying politicians keeps you out of the judicial

00:12:56.700 system, lets you rape young women, lets you traffic women, you've got another thing coming 1.00

00:13:04.060 when this bill passes. Do not let the Senate muck this up. There have already been efforts to derail 0.99

00:13:12.020 this, our discharge petition. The Oversight Committee has released thousands, tens of thousands of

00:13:20.080 documents. That's fine. Keep working. How many names have you released? Zero. You are still protecting,

00:13:29.760 or the DOJ is protecting, pedophiles and sex traffickers. The time for that to stop is now. 0.50

00:13:37.120 Now, our speaker says, oh, this bill needs amended in the Senate, and specifically, he's trying to

00:13:43.120 create a loophole. He's trying to categorize the pedophiles as victims. He's saying, oh, we don't

00:13:49.440 embarrass the people that went to the rape island. We should protect those names against unreliable

00:13:56.600 accusations. Is he calling all of these victims unreliable? They've testified to the FBI. The FBI

00:14:05.400 has these names in their possession. I asked the FBI director in a hearing, have you looked at the

00:14:11.740 documents? No. He trusts everybody that's been there for decades. That is wrong. Do not let the Senate

00:14:18.600 muck this bill up. And if you are, if you're a party to that in the Senate, you are part of this

00:14:25.040 cover up that we are trying to expose. I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get

00:14:30.860 embarrassed because he went to rape island.

00:14:34.300 Jesus. 0.97

00:14:36.420 I mean, third page nasty. He's given them nowhere to wriggle out of it.

00:14:41.300 It does give you an idea of the resistance that he's faced in the lead up to this as well,

00:14:47.380 because people, this bill was drafted back in June or July, I believe, and has been struggling

00:14:53.700 since then. You can hear from him that this has been a bipartisan effort because the co-sponsor,

00:15:00.800 the main sponsor of the bill, Thomas Massey, is listed as a co-sponsor. The main sponsor

00:15:05.280 is a progressive Democrat called Ro... Let me go back to find his name on the page itself. I don't

00:15:12.060 want to get it wrong. Ro... Ro Khanna. That's... So this has been bipartisan. Obviously, it's got

00:15:21.440 people like Marjorie Taylor Greene involved as well. But it seems that a lot of the pushback has

00:15:27.220 been on the Republican side. And Massey here is not just inferring, he's flatly stating that he

00:15:33.520 suspects that a lot of that is to do with people wanting to protect their billionaire donors who might

00:15:39.460 have been involved in this, who might be worried that their name shows up on that. And you never know

00:15:44.620 that some of those representatives themselves might also show up on that. The email leaks from last

00:15:50.420 week alone have already given a lot of people a lot to work with in names who were in correspondence

00:15:56.500 with Jeff Epstein as late as 2018. And that's right as the new investigation before 2019, when he

00:16:05.660 killed himself had begun to ramp up. That's when a lot of the media speculation and media reporting on

00:16:11.540 him began to ramp up again. And already we're getting news that a lot of beforehand thought

00:16:18.280 trusted political operatives had already been in touch with him at that time giving their sympathies.

00:16:25.200 So a lot of people seem to be ready to lose a lot over this. Despite that, despite that,

00:16:34.000 it seems that Trump rallied a lot of people together because he flipped and said he was

00:16:39.680 all right with all of this being released. And as a result, it was it was passed with 427 votes

00:16:47.840 to one.

00:16:49.880 Well, Massey was saying that he basically was going to be able to pass it irrespective of

00:16:54.720 Trump's endorsement. He said, look, I've I've done the rounds, I have the numbers. So either

00:16:59.660 bear witness to, you know, America's either going to bear witness to the fact that your party is

00:17:04.380 actually entirely split on this issue. Yeah. And you're going to show weakness to the entirety of

00:17:08.960 the American establishment or just get behind it. Yeah. I don't understand Trump's positioning on

00:17:16.360 this. It's been terrible. This has been the one thing that Trump has been genuinely terrible on.

00:17:20.780 And so we know that they were really good friends for a long time until they fell out over a property

00:17:27.680 dispute in Florida. And the only emails I've seen coming out that really the people of my

00:17:33.360 see Trump told them to stop doing what they're doing. He knew it's like, well, listen, everyone

00:17:37.220 knew what everyone knew. This is one of those open secrets in these these spheres. And so for

00:17:45.460 to have Trump being like, you need to stop doing this. Well, that's, that's not terrible. Like

00:17:50.720 that's better than most, isn't it? I mean, most people just silently complied. Well, I haven't

00:17:56.080 seen those emails that you're all right. Well, the Democrats, I follow a bunch of Democrats on

00:18:00.340 Twitter and they were posting around, but it's like, but that's not actually the worst thing

00:18:05.600 that could have come out of these, you know, that's Trump condemning them. And then you've got

00:18:09.560 other emails of Jeffrey Epstein saying Trump's a bad person. It's like, oh, right. Jeffrey Epstein

00:18:12.940 thinks you're a bad person. Okay. Well, I don't know what I'm supposed to make of that.

00:18:16.620 I don't take him as a moral source. So it's very, very strange because I don't think Trump

00:18:23.340 is actually implicated. As far as we know, he didn't go on the Lolita Express and go to

00:18:28.660 Epstein's Island. So, okay. Yeah. It's, you know, it's kind of a gross thing to have connections

00:18:33.360 with Epstein, but everyone had connections. I believe Virginia Guffrey is the one that they

00:18:38.560 most often reference as saying that Trump didn't do anything. Yeah. And he, yeah, he spent time with

00:18:46.020 her and did nothing. Yeah. And that is also, I believe I've seen some reports that that's

00:18:50.520 referenced in the emails as well. The ones that were dropped last week. And she said elsewhere

00:18:55.840 as well. Yeah. Epstein mentioning like, oh, he spent time, he spent time with this girl in my house

00:19:01.100 for a day or maybe days at a time. So that does seem to potentially line up with what she said

00:19:07.360 before as well. But, but this is what I mean though. Why, why is Trump so inconsistent on this?

00:19:11.360 And the only thing I can assume is he's trying to protect a bunch of people who are going to be

00:19:16.520 implicated. As, as Firas was making the point on Monday as well, when we were covering this,

00:19:23.040 it's not just obviously going to expose when all of this comes out in black and white, the dark heart

00:19:28.140 of the American establishment, but numerous establishments around the world as well. Well,

00:19:32.940 this, this is why I think the Republicans are against getting this out so much. I agree.

00:19:37.440 Because there are going to be certain close allies in the Middle East who might also be affected by

00:19:41.600 this. Well, I almost certainly believe that that is probably true. And also, let's be honest,

00:19:47.240 our own intelligence agencies as well will be implicated with this. And that's the funny thing

00:19:52.060 about the NAVO, the singular NAVO. Yeah, who was that guy? You can see there were five people who

00:19:57.140 didn't vote at all. That guy was a man called Clay Higgins. Okay. And I looked into this guy very

00:20:03.300 briefly, but what was going around on social media on Twitter was a clip of him at his door being asked

00:20:09.900 by the cameraman or interviewer, you know, if, if you had to choose Israel or America, which one would

00:20:17.480 it be? And to which his answer was, that's like making me choose between my wife and my child. I

00:20:22.820 can't make that choice as a, as a US house rep. I don't know. As a US house representative, you

00:20:29.200 should probably choose America. You would think. But also I thought, okay, okay. So it's just that

00:20:34.240 he's some like a Israel shill or something. And then I looked into him on his Wikipedia page. And

00:20:39.320 the interesting thing was that back in 1992, it said, which is obviously 33 years ago, but this is a

00:20:45.460 hell of a political journey that he's taken. It said that he was a supporter of Pat Buchanan

00:20:50.760 for his 1992 Republican run for US president. Obviously he didn't make it through the primaries

00:20:57.080 and also was a supporter of David Duke's gubernatorial run as well. So that is a hell of a political

00:21:06.780 journey. I know 33 years is a long time, but to go from Buchananite slash KKK supporter

00:21:14.700 to, uh, don't make me choose between Israel and the US. I mean, very strange.

00:21:21.180 According to track AIPAC, he's only taken $20,000 from Israel as well. That's yeah, that's

00:21:25.660 not even a big number. He says that the reason for doing so was that he was trying to stick

00:21:31.540 to principles, worried that similar to what Massey was pointing out there, that there's some

00:21:36.080 people said that they had concerns that this will lead to false accusations from people.

00:21:40.740 And to be fair, that's always a risk. That's, that's always a risk. You can't just take witness

00:21:47.620 statements at purely face value, which is why I think a lot of the value of this comes from

00:21:52.600 the actual documents that the DOJ has that will come from further investigations outside

00:21:57.440 of just taking witness statements as well. But I do think it's important that we have access

00:22:02.400 to all of this. The worry from here was what's going to happen at the Senate? Are they going

00:22:08.060 to delay it? Are they going to mend it to make it completely useless, worthless? No, actually. 0.98

00:22:15.800 It was passed in seconds. And Chuck Schumer, of all people, was the one who got it passed

00:22:24.180 in seconds with no, it was unanimous. There were no votes against it. This was something

00:22:31.260 that is very, very unusual. And it does, it does make me suspicious that there might be some

00:22:38.740 chicanery. I can't say what just yet. No. But I am suspicious that there may be some chicanery 1.00

00:22:44.560 going on here, given that Chuck Schumer is the one who pushes it through the Senate immediately

00:22:49.320 within seconds. But it goes through with no amendments. So on the face of it, where we stand

00:22:57.760 right now, that's amazing. Yeah, that's the best case scenario. That's amazing. Because

00:23:02.880 the only person now that it stands between this bill and us getting the files within 30

00:23:09.000 days is Donald Trump's signature. That's the only thing. And he said that he's willing

00:23:15.040 to sign it now. You know what's weird is that Schumer in 2008 criticised Epstein's plea deal

00:23:19.200 and called for government accountability on it. So he didn't want Epstein to get the sweetheart

00:23:23.420 deal. Perhaps this is a principled stance by Schumer. Good for him, I guess. Perhaps

00:23:30.280 the United States Senate is taking a principled stance on something, even against its own interests,

00:23:37.400 maybe? Strange times we live in. I was going to say stranger things have happened, but I'm

00:23:41.740 not sure that they have. But let's take it as a win. All right. Well, we'll see. We'll see

00:23:46.100 what happens. Of course, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, has said that releasing the Epstein

00:23:52.240 files without redactions could pose a national security risk. Again, you're allowed to make

00:23:56.180 redactions. You just have to justify them. Yeah. You can't just redact entire documents

00:24:00.940 away for no reason. Instant straw man, then. Yeah. Mike Johnson. He has also been asked coming

00:24:06.940 out of the House of Representatives what he thinks of it. Any reaction to Leader Thune

00:24:12.820 you seeing the bill without adding amendments or changing it? I am. I'm deeply disappointed

00:24:19.340 in this outcome. I think I'm told I've been at the state dinner. I don't know. I was just

00:24:23.780 told that Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor and put it out there preemptively. It needed

00:24:28.840 amendments. I just spoke to the president about that. We'll see what happens. So is he do you

00:24:32.700 think he may veto it? You say you spoke to the president? I'm not saying that. Is he supportive

00:24:36.320 of it in its current form? We both have concerns about it. So we'll see. I was standing there

00:24:42.660 with the Crown Transmitter. Are you frustrated and the majority leader? Are you upset with

00:24:47.560 the majority leader? So he says he's deeply disappointed. Now, he did actually vote in

00:24:52.060 favor of it. Obviously, he is not the one guy who voted against it. But he was seemingly

00:24:58.220 hoping that the Senate would amend it heavily. He was counting on it. Yeah, he was counting

00:25:03.940 on it. And the fact that they didn't is what he finds deeply disappointing. He also made

00:25:08.260 this public statement as well. National security concerns, okay? The discharge requires the

00:25:14.460 attorney general to release within 30 days, quote, classified information to the maximum extent

00:25:21.700 possible. This ignores the principle that declassification should always rest and always has

00:25:27.980 with the agency that originated the intelligence. Why? So that they can protect their critical

00:25:34.220 sources and methods. It is incredibly dangerous to demand that officials or employees of the

00:25:41.760 DOJ declassify materials that originated in other agencies and intelligence agencies.

00:25:47.620 So say it might cause a national security risk. Yeah, but I mean, in his defense, he previously

00:25:52.920 contradicted Trump saying it's not a hoax, that the Epstein files are real and there is something

00:25:57.640 there. So in his defense, he might actually be concerned about national security risk.

00:26:02.720 I'll be interested to find out what that national security risk is and if it is to do with the

00:26:07.240 fact that Epstein was probably attached to the CIA in some capacity. Yeah. Because when

00:26:11.880 he says, oh, the methods used by the intelligence agencies, are you talking about Jeffrey Epstein

00:26:17.560 and his island being one of those methods? Yeah. Because again, I certainly believe that that is

00:26:23.300 the case. I believe that that's the case. I think there's a lot of evidence showing that that is how

00:26:28.680 the intelligence agencies have worked for decades now. And it also raises the question, if that is,

00:26:35.200 how these intelligence agencies get things to happen and get people to work for them on the side.

00:26:40.340 That's not leverage that you just let go. No, I mean, I suspect it's just one of the tools

00:26:45.160 that they use, but yeah, it's definitely the case. And it's also not a position that goes unfilled,

00:26:49.480 even though the guy who was in charge of it has mysteriously done himself in, in a jail cell that

00:26:57.360 was under 24 hours surveillance, except for that few minutes watching. Again, now this just means

00:27:03.620 that it's just Trump is the one guy in the way and people, is this, that's twice, sorry, folks.

00:27:12.180 And then there is the worry. There is the worry now that Donald Trump, as it says in this article,

00:27:18.720 has said he will sign the bill, which backtracks from his month-long opposition to its passage.

00:27:24.360 But Forbes are saying, here's why the DOJ's investigation could keep the Epstein files hidden

00:27:30.280 as the bill forcing release heads to Trump's desk. They say, while the bill requires the DOJ

00:27:36.440 to turn over its full files on Epstein, the legislation carves out the few exceptions that

00:27:40.200 we've gone over. Attorney General Pan Bondi confirmed last week that at Trump's direction,

00:27:45.460 the DOJ is launching an investigation into Epstein's tiles to such people in institutions

00:27:50.980 as former President Clinton, Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman, economist Larry Summers,

00:27:56.740 and JPMorgan Chase. Legal experts have speculated the Trump administration will use that probe

00:28:02.080 to justify not turning over many of the Epstein files under the federal investigation exemption

00:28:07.720 with former US attorney Barbara Cade telling Time the DOJ investigation could be a strategic effort

00:28:14.560 to block the release of further documents in the Epstein case. So I'm wondering if this being

00:28:19.980 fast-tracked and going through is to do with that. That would require a lot of coordination

00:28:24.900 and collaboration between Trump, Trump's DOJ, and even senators on the opposing side in the

00:28:31.420 Democrats. But if this is as deep as it seems to go, then that's not outside of the realm of

00:28:37.260 possibility. But we'll have to see if the legislation as it sits is enough to challenge that by forcing

00:28:43.480 them to justify any redactions and to justify any withheld information for the time being. And plus,

00:28:51.260 it is still on a temporary basis. If they withhold stuff over this investigation, how long will they

00:28:58.220 be able to do so? And will they drag out whatever this investigation is to prevent that information

00:29:04.120 being released if it is as things appear right now? The thing is, though, Thomas Massey has said

00:29:11.220 something pretty damning regarding this, which is if they are trying to delay it, if this does happen,

00:29:18.020 well, he's just going to read the names of the clients publicly in the house. He said he would

00:29:28.620 go that route if we hit all of the walls. So far, we're making it through the walls, but absolutely,

00:29:34.020 I will read the names of Epstein's alleged clients if they try and halt this, if they try and ruin this.

00:29:40.480 That's quite a threat. He's a brave man. Yeah. That is quite a threat. So, you know, I applaud the fact

00:29:47.840 that he seems principled enough to want to go ahead with this. Honestly, I'm genuinely worried about

00:29:52.700 their safety. Yeah, me too. I'm sure many people are. I'm sure they're worried for their own safety.

00:29:59.280 But if he does have the integrity to go through it at the risk of his own safety, then you've got to

00:30:04.980 respect that. Oh, I totally respect that. You have to respect that. So I do see this at the moment as

00:30:10.580 a win for Thomas Massey. We'll see if the administration or other forces within the

00:30:15.880 government and the deep state try to withhold this information for longer and what tactics they

00:30:20.900 use to withhold that. But for the time being, I'm excited to see what more information comes out.

00:30:26.140 I'm excited to see people reporting on it, and I'm excited to be able to get all of this in a format I

00:30:31.180 can actually bloody look through properly. All right, let's go through the super chats and rumble

00:30:36.120 rants on this. Have you guys rechecked your ancestry results? It had a huge update that

00:30:41.000 changed a ton of results and got way more specific. Yes. Oh, yeah, we did that the other day. Yeah.

00:30:46.240 This just seems like a complete cluster on both sides. I have no clue what's going on. There seems

00:30:50.300 to be more damage towards the Democrats than Trump. Potentially. Potentially. G'day, everyone.

00:30:56.740 Also, a bunch of Democrat judges also could prevent this from getting leaked as well. I keep

00:31:00.820 hearing it. I'm not sure if it's true or not. Well, if Thomas Massey just decides, yeah,

00:31:05.180 I'm just going to go for it, what does it make? Yeah, it doesn't, yeah. Bay Stape, it's my birthday

00:31:10.160 today, so you have to read this out. Grow your moustache back, pussy. Can I get a good old warg? 1.00

00:31:16.980 I assume he's talking about me. I assume he is. I assume so as well. Happy birthday, Bay Stape.

00:31:22.380 Yes, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. I would not have read that were it not your birthday.

00:31:26.600 You better not be sending in more ridiculous things next week saying it's your birthday 0.97

00:31:30.640 again, by the way. The engaged few. Threat to national security. Afraid of losing blackmail 0.98

00:31:36.320 material. Are we? Hey man, like national security is based on many things. Yeah, mainly blackmail

00:31:42.920 material, probably. A drunk changeling. A lot of Trump's actions make sense when you view them

00:31:46.920 as him avoiding getting JFK'd. When he could put the blame of releasing it on Congress, he

00:31:51.080 was all for it. Potentially. Potentially. Cranky Texan, the word bipartisan, usually some larger

00:31:56.180 than usual deception is being carried out, and that's a quote from George Carlin. Yeah.

00:32:00.100 Maybe. I mean, he is often right about that, but on this, I mean, I don't know, man.

00:32:06.580 Cranky Texan, assuming real information does actually get released. If some of it doesn't

00:32:10.080 elucidate Epstein's role in covert government financing and money laundering, then it won't be

00:32:13.800 complete. That's fair. Fair concern. Random name. Watch how Massey will mysteriously shoot himself

00:32:19.500 twice in the back of the head. As far as I know, the Clintons aren't involved with Massey

00:32:24.040 yet, but anyway, Tom Rapp. But they were probably involved with Epstein. Yeah, well, I mean,

00:32:29.220 where did that painting come from? Yeah. Why did he have... Yeah, exactly. Why did he have...

00:32:33.860 Oh, wait, no. Was that his painting, or was that... No, he had that in his Manhattan penthouse.

00:32:37.800 Was that Epstein? Wasn't it also... Was it one of the Podestas that had a weird painting

00:32:42.200 of Bill Clinton as well, or am I getting the two mixed up? The Podestas had other weird

00:32:46.200 paintings, but I'm pretty sure... Well, I know the Podestas had some weird paintings. Yeah,

00:32:49.000 I'm pretty sure it was Epstein who had the Bill Clinton in a dress painting. Yeah. I'm

00:32:53.960 just going to check that. Tom Rapp, glad to hear Harry reads Nine Gag also. I don't actually.

00:32:58.960 Sorry, I don't. Massey's bill will do nothing, as Mike Benz has stated... Yeah, it was definitely

00:33:02.900 Epstein. Yeah, okay, that's good. That's not good, but that's good to know. It's good that

00:33:08.160 we fact-checked. Yeah. As Mike Benz has stated, the only thing you need to know is if Tulsi

00:33:12.280 Gabbard has a file at the CIA on him. Well, I don't know that, and we don't know whether

00:33:20.040 why the CIA didn't do a name check on Epstein relating to this. He probably was involved

00:33:24.760 with them. And also, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss that Massey's bill will do nothing.

00:33:29.600 Yeah, it looks like it's pretty solid. It does seem pretty solid. We'll see if they manage

00:33:33.920 to do some shenanigans around it, but we'll see. And lastly, for $20, thank you, I'm a truck

00:33:39.500 driver, not Indian, real CDL, listening at 5am live in Washington State, Sogon of Applebee's

00:33:46.120 strongest soldier. That's what I like to see, but good man.

00:33:50.820 All right then. Well, so yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan, the streets were defined by conflict

00:33:58.560 and protests and marches between the Christians and the Muslims. Now, this was not quite of the 0.92

00:34:06.140 same calibre as, say, the Battle of Arsif or Jaffa, but it was still pretty.

00:34:10.880 It's not quite that big as a crusade, but we're getting there.

00:34:13.680 We are building something here that does seem to be, again, it's just a symptom of the trajectory

00:34:21.440 that many Western cities are now going towards. And as a consequence of that, I obviously have

00:34:27.620 a lot to say about all of the different sides of it. Before I do, though, I just want to point

00:34:32.500 your attention towards the latest episode of Chronicles, because Stelios and I have recorded

00:34:37.300 one talking about the final play of... what?

00:34:41.540 Sorry, just this screenshot that they've chosen of Stelios makes it feel like he's in a dating

00:34:46.160 sim. And he's trying to seduce me.

00:34:50.240 He's trying to seduce Athena.

00:34:52.340 Makes sense.

00:34:53.000 Yeah, he does like Athena.

00:34:54.460 Pologies.

00:34:55.260 No, that's all right. Anyway, the point is, it's an absolutely fantastic play talking about

00:34:59.820 all sorts of things between, oh, I don't know, blood feuds, vengeance, violence, civic

00:35:05.700 law, and the polity, and the consent of the minority as well, which is a sort of a decision

00:35:13.040 that Aeschylus comes to, that actually peace cannot be established without the minority 0.97

00:35:19.240 basically granting the higher wisdom that the majority have come to. And so what you're

00:35:25.960 seeing with this play here, what Aeschylus is working through, is a transition from the

00:35:30.540 old moral age defined by the Titans and towards a new, more reasoned sense of justice as exhibited

00:35:38.920 by the Olympians and by the wisdom of Zeus. So it's a deeply philosophical play. Please

00:35:44.920 do go and check it out if you're interested.

00:35:47.980 So let's talk a little bit first, shall we, about the history of Dearborn. How did we actually

00:35:53.500 get here? How did we get to it being the first Arab American majority city in the United States?

00:36:01.380 Well, in fact, as it happens, this goes back quite a long way. Now, you see, there have

00:36:09.840 actually been Syrians and Lebanese people there since the 1880s, but these were, of course,

00:36:17.000 Christians. 0.51

00:36:18.040 And a very tiny minority, no doubt.

00:36:19.360 Yes. And a very, very tiny minority. But due to Michigan and Henry Ford and his factories

00:36:26.680 in the 1920s, that also brought in many other workers from that region of the world who were

00:36:33.940 obviously happy to take the new wage that Ford was proposing. And then, of course, so then

00:36:39.880 you have a few thousand within places like Detroit, places like Dearborn. And then, of course,

00:36:45.860 the critical blow, as is the case with basically the history of America, was, of course, the

00:36:51.880 Hart-Celler Act of the 1960s. And this ramped things up to comically unjust levels and obviously

00:37:00.620 was not what any American really wanted the trajectory of their cities to turn into. It

00:37:06.980 wasn't in the mind of the founding fathers that they would hand away all of their cities

00:37:13.160 built up by the European settlers over centuries to third-worldists who have no consideration 1.00

00:37:20.160 for the Constitution, for its heritage, and for the Anglo high-trust society that America 0.69

00:37:27.320 became.

00:37:27.760 I mean, they explicitly stipulated white European men of good character, didn't they?

00:37:31.940 Yes.

00:37:32.620 So.

00:37:33.060 Yes.

00:37:33.320 That was reaffirmed in 1924 as well.

00:37:37.840 And obviously, this particular article from The Conversation is very, very proud of this

00:37:43.920 change that has happened to Dearborn. And I think that these two paragraphs in particular

00:37:48.500 are just worth reading, which is that, nevertheless, the Arab-American community continued to grow

00:37:54.660 and diversify. Iraqi and Syrian refugee populations began to arrive in the 90s and 2010s, respectively,

00:38:01.480 following wars in their homelands. Homelands. Interesting word. Not, obviously, native to

00:38:08.200 America. They settled in Dearborn and on its periphery in Detroit and neighboring suburbs. 0.76

00:38:13.820 Together, this new cohort of Arab-Americans joined the established community in fighting 1.00

00:38:20.140 back against Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban and other policies that discriminated against

00:38:25.800 refugees, migrants, and Muslims by building alliances with Democrats and engaging with

00:38:32.120 broadening civil rights coalitions represented by groups such as Black Lives Matter and the

00:38:38.080 Women's March.

00:38:39.020 So they immediately formed an ethnic bloc and started fighting for their own interests against

00:38:43.640 the interests of the white majority.

00:38:45.520 Many such cases.

00:38:47.240 This is such a good thing. I always think, so did you say that Ford and his factories were

00:38:51.340 one of the reasons that people from that part of the world, I would assume Christians from

00:38:55.180 that part of the world, migrated there in the first place in the early 20th century?

00:38:59.240 Yes.

00:38:59.580 Because one of the things I always think about, like, Michigan and Detroit and Dearborn, there,

00:39:05.680 I always wonder if part of it is not, this is going to sound conspiratorial, a punishment 0.51

00:39:12.540 for Ford being a very notorious racist.

00:39:16.500 No, it sounds like it was happening in his time.

00:39:19.060 But if Ford was one of the people who invited them there in the first place, then that's

00:39:23.680 kind of a knock against capital, really. The capitalist invited a load of foreigners who 1.00

00:39:30.780 ended up later being anchors for communities of more of them to come in.

00:39:35.540 On the plus side, at least we know that the coalition isn't going to last. I mean, if the

00:39:38.900 example of Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party is anything to go by,

00:39:41.940 we know that the Islamo-Communist Alliance is going to break up very, very quickly.

00:39:46.020 Absolutely.

00:39:46.260 They couldn't even get an email name list out before somebody started trying to scam.

00:39:51.920 Couldn't even name the party. So anyway.

00:39:54.140 True.

00:39:54.560 But you can see here, in clear black and white, that what they did was they just behaved like

00:39:59.660 Sadiq Khan, like Mamdani. They used multiculturalism as a wedge to break the unity of the heritage 1.00

00:40:06.140 of America, the white Anglo's heritage of America.

00:40:10.220 Kind of like strike busters. 0.89

00:40:12.300 Yes, exactly. And so, and then we got to this article from, I'm not giving you money,

00:40:18.860 this article from The Guardian from just a month ago saying,

00:40:22.080 I don't feel safe anymore, says Dearborn's Arab Americans on the rising Islamophobia.

00:40:29.740 Turns out that it wasn't, as the article just pointed out, a, actually a place with healing,

00:40:36.520 safer, better communities.

00:40:38.160 And now you get to know how the Lebanese Christians felt.

00:40:40.320 Yeah, by the diversity. And so, naturally, as the Muslim population of Dearborn increased,

00:40:47.860 Americans had to deal with particularly American Christian ambience, like this.

00:41:04.420 At 5.30 in the morning, every day.

00:41:07.440 See, that looks like an otherwise really nice little suburban street.

00:41:10.720 You look at that without the sound, and you think, oh, I bet that's a very pleasant place.

00:41:14.420 No.

00:41:14.880 Yeah.

00:41:15.160 No.

00:41:15.940 Could have been.

00:41:16.500 No.

00:41:16.840 Should have been.

00:41:17.740 Ruined by foreign cattle walling. 0.98

00:41:20.560 Yes.

00:41:21.040 And obviously, if you think that you're going to have any sympathy from the mayor on this,

00:41:27.240 I wouldn't expect so, given that...

00:41:29.400 So, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, yeah.

00:41:31.480 Doesn't seem to find any contention.

00:41:33.540 The noise levels are not an issue.

00:41:35.200 No.

00:41:35.420 Yeah, of course not, because it's your religion broadcasting the call to prayer.

00:41:39.480 Well, he shows us that the call to prayer is within the legal limits of what the sound

00:41:46.780 can be.

00:41:47.540 Oh, there we go.

00:41:48.100 And so, therefore, what are you complaining about?

00:41:50.860 Me going down your neighbourhood and honking my horn at half five in the morning is also

00:41:55.280 within the legal limits.

00:41:57.140 You still wouldn't tolerate it, though, would you?

00:41:59.180 No, not particularly.

00:41:59.520 Traditional American call to prayer.

00:42:00.580 And then, so, he has other thoughts as well on multiculturalism and diversity, which we'll

00:42:06.080 just hear him out on.

00:42:07.280 Because what you often hear that's accompanied with that is, well, you must assimilate.

00:42:10.620 Like, I shouldn't put out a magazine that's in two languages.

00:42:14.420 Why can't you speak English?

00:42:15.820 Why are my videos subtitled in Arabic?

00:42:18.120 Why is my caption both in English and Arabic?

00:42:20.260 People get frustrated by this.

00:42:22.200 But to me, it's like, I actually disavow the use of the term, the melting pot.

00:42:27.580 I actually don't like it.

00:42:28.600 Why?

00:42:28.800 Because in a melting pot, when you're talking about like a soup, everything looks the same.

00:42:32.560 Right.

00:42:33.260 Where's the salad bowl?

00:42:33.980 Well, the lettuce is lettuce, the tomato is tomato, the cucumber is cucumber, and they

00:42:39.080 all complement each other.

00:42:40.580 Now, for me, the salad bowl simile is really just the Inglorious Bastards meme of this.

00:42:45.680 Because, obviously, America isn't a salad bowl. 0.87

00:42:48.060 It's a steak.

00:42:49.580 And what you're seeing here...

00:42:52.060 I thought it was a cheeseburger.

00:42:53.520 Or a cheeseburger.

00:42:54.820 But what he's basically saying is, look, you have all these distinct flavors.

00:42:58.800 And, actually, you can just put marmite in your burger.

00:43:02.100 Or chutney.

00:43:03.100 No, some ingredients...

00:43:03.660 Actually, I quite like the idea of marmite in a burger, I've got to be honest.

00:43:06.140 Okay, well, that's ruined my entire...

00:43:07.980 I'm sorry.

00:43:09.040 This is why I don't trust you, Carl.

00:43:10.960 I'm a great cook.

00:43:11.900 I don't know what anyone's complaining about.

00:43:13.200 But you take my point.

00:43:14.180 There are some ingredients within the salad or the burger that are naturally a part of it.

00:43:19.740 And there are others that simply don't belong in that dish.

00:43:23.560 But also, I mean, to say that we're going to move to your country, and then we're going 0.99

00:43:26.980 to repudiate the idea of integrating into your society, and form our own ethnic enclaves, 0.67

00:43:32.780 which are, I mean, what he is arguing for you, is basically just a colony.

00:43:36.540 A foreign Arabic colony.

00:43:38.440 Muslim colony.

00:43:39.400 In Dearborn.

00:43:40.540 That gets the same benefits from the local states that everybody else should be entitled to. 0.96

00:43:45.240 So what he's just saying is, let us be a parasite. 0.99

00:43:48.180 Let us be a tax parasite from you. 0.99

00:43:50.620 Let us take your tax money. 0.97

00:43:52.660 I mean, it's...

00:43:53.100 Please.

00:43:53.400 Please.

00:43:53.880 Literally just a foreign colony that is extracting resources from the majority native. 0.99

00:43:58.920 I would like to leech off of you, please.

00:44:01.860 And what's more as well, some of the Muslims who are growing up in Dearborn are, suffice it 0.95

00:44:08.620 to say, quite radical.

00:44:10.440 So we have this here from Ahmad Musa Jabril, who served six and a half years in prison for

00:44:18.240 conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and possession of firearms and ammunition, and is a popular

00:44:24.240 figure amongst ISIS terrorists.

00:44:25.880 Oh, you know it's going to be good when you can see the memory TV popping.

00:44:29.360 Right.

00:44:29.660 There.

00:44:30.160 So he is...

00:44:31.120 But this is exactly the sort of thing that you get from these sort of things, these communities.

00:44:34.980 Local Dearborn man...

00:44:36.300 Yeah.

00:44:36.880 ...just happens to hold the opinions that basically the assassination of Charlie Cook was a praiseworthy

00:44:42.220 of the action, and he condemned other Muslims who did condemn it.

00:44:48.020 And he is obviously, yeah, very... 1.00

00:44:51.160 Yeah, just utter scum. 0.99

00:44:52.400 Why don't we have the memory subscription, guys? 1.00

00:44:55.400 Good question.

00:44:56.860 It'd be too blackpilling.

00:44:58.120 So then, of course, I'm just teeing up with all of that to say, this is the sort of environment

00:45:05.860 that the people of Dearborn are in.

00:45:07.900 And so, naturally, you can't expect the white WASP heritage Americans to just accept this, 0.67

00:45:18.480 to just accept the mayor coming out and saying, actually, we can speak in Arabic as much as

00:45:22.720 we want.

00:45:23.020 And actually, it doesn't matter if you wake up every single day and slowly see your culture

00:45:28.740 and inheritance taken apart piece by piece.

00:45:32.640 Right?

00:45:33.220 That doesn't matter.

00:45:34.380 Yeah, that will kind of irk you eventually.

00:45:36.500 This is the thing I've been warning Americans about.

00:45:38.660 When they, you know, they're like, oh, look at what's happening to England.

00:45:41.120 It's like, well, it's happening in America as well, man.

00:45:43.660 Mm-hmm.

00:45:44.300 You know?

00:45:44.740 Yeah, it absolutely is.

00:45:45.800 And their demographics are worse than ours. 0.98

00:45:47.520 And so, I've purposefully, one thing I just want to make clear as well is that there were

00:45:52.780 different protests that were going on yesterday, and they were not of the same flavour.

00:45:57.620 And I have different things to say about both of them.

00:46:00.900 But for now, let's just talk about this one here, because this was led by Jake Lang, who

00:46:07.820 was actually one of the January 6th.

00:46:11.100 I was going to say, why do I know that name?

00:46:12.600 We have interviewed him.

00:46:13.580 Yeah, that's right.

00:46:14.240 Or Josh has interviewed him.

00:46:15.360 Yeah, yeah.

00:46:15.740 He did.

00:46:16.020 So, one of the January 6th hostages, along with a, what was his name?

00:46:21.640 Yes, Cam Higby as well.

00:46:23.960 So, these two people, and we can see the type of protests that they were putting on.

00:46:39.020 So, Americans against Islamisation, American flags, all seems very sensible on the surface. 1.00

00:46:44.520 But then you eventually had behaviour like this.

00:46:47.900 Now, I'm not saying it's not funny, but he went on to basically slap the Koran with a 0.64

00:46:55.300 slice of bacon.

00:46:57.400 At which point, what did you think was going to happen?

00:46:59.860 You know, I'm not even sure we should play it, being on YouTube.

00:47:02.280 No, no.

00:47:02.620 All right.

00:47:02.820 I know that sounds, like, hypersensitive, but...

00:47:05.140 No, I appreciate the caution.

00:47:06.980 It's YouTube.

00:47:07.940 Probably for the best.

00:47:08.720 But anyway, obviously, as you can imagine, for all the Muslims, they didn't take that 1.00

00:47:12.540 too well.

00:47:13.100 No, I can't imagine they did.

00:47:14.120 To understate the point.

00:47:15.380 But the point as well is that this is not just walking down the street saying, we're Americans,

00:47:20.600 we're still here.

00:47:21.240 It's going straight to the most provocative thing to encourage violence and to basically

00:47:28.300 treat this...

00:47:30.120 All this is, really, is a video designed for clickbait.

00:47:33.740 Yeah.

00:47:34.040 Right?

00:47:34.300 It's just designed for internet sensationalism.

00:47:37.000 It's not actually addressing the concerns of the local people.

00:47:41.000 It's entirely performative.

00:47:42.720 Now, there is also this video from Cam, which I'm less interested in, his position there

00:47:49.480 and more for you to just get a view of the crowd themselves.

00:48:02.220 Reminds me of England.

00:48:03.460 Yeah.

00:48:03.760 In many ways.

00:48:04.680 Foreign colonists.

00:48:05.640 Right.

00:48:06.000 It's like taking a trip to Manchester.

00:48:07.820 Yeah.

00:48:08.200 Exactly.

00:48:08.600 And so then we, of course, had more of this, more shouts of Allah Akbar and all of this.

00:48:14.900 But the thing was that everything that Cam was doing and that these gents were doing 1.00

00:48:22.400 had this sort of smugness to it, right?

00:48:26.360 The idea that they didn't really...

00:48:28.980 It was really for their own clout, for their own visibility.

00:48:32.480 And ultimately, as well, they are very, very critical of the Islamisation of the United

00:48:39.620 States.

00:48:40.160 And of course, why would you not be?

00:48:41.860 Of course.

00:48:42.400 Why would you not be?

00:48:43.740 But also, as well, we have to consider the fact that Cam recently met with Netanyahu.

00:48:49.580 Right.

00:48:49.920 And so we have that aspect of things as well.

00:48:52.780 So, like with many things, we have sort of a Zionist-backed agitation movement.

00:48:58.820 But then simultaneously, we have the other protests that was going on.

00:49:03.820 Now, this is...

00:49:05.500 Sorry, it's not a picture of him, but I'm going to start talking about Anthony Hudson.

00:49:09.740 Right.

00:49:09.960 Now, Anthony Hudson is actually currently running as a Republican candidate for governor.

00:49:15.240 And he basically wanted to say that we want to protect America against Sharia law. 0.70

00:49:23.320 He doesn't seem to be in with those people who I've just previously named.

00:49:28.680 He's in here.

00:49:29.600 Yeah.

00:49:30.200 But what's more as well, his drawbacks are the fact that he is one of those boomers who 1.00

00:49:37.760 doesn't actually want to touch the ethnic component of it.

00:49:41.440 And so both sides see a part of the picture, but they're not looking at it in the actual

00:49:47.780 whole.

00:49:48.820 And given the stakes that we're now at and how late the hour is...

00:49:55.840 Especially for Dearborn, being majority hour.

00:49:57.680 Especially for Dearborn.

00:49:59.500 But I think this is perhaps one of my broader points as well, is that if a solution is going

00:50:06.960 to come to this, it's not going to be from within Dearborn itself.

00:50:11.100 Because, of course, by this point, being the majority demographic, the Muslims have the

00:50:15.560 institutions.

00:50:16.980 And so nothing can really be achieved by marching on the streets of Dearborn.

00:50:22.980 If a solution is to come, it has to come from the federal government.

00:50:26.720 It has to come from Washington.

00:50:28.160 And when I drew on earlier, that radical jihadist who was saying awful things about the assassination

00:50:38.620 of Kirk, he and several others were, of course, deported because of what was said.

00:50:44.980 But again, it's 16 people.

00:50:47.620 And if these are the most radical and you see all those faces in the crowd, as I pointed

00:50:51.880 them out to you, these are just the high profile cases.

00:50:55.860 This is not just the average ghettoized community.

00:50:58.980 The community itself supports these people, which is why they operated in that community

00:51:02.500 in the first place.

00:51:03.280 Exactly.

00:51:03.880 Those communities gave birth to those radical figures.

00:51:07.160 And so we have to suppose that the community is a reflection of their beliefs.

00:51:12.060 Exactly so.

00:51:13.080 And so really what we have here as well is the problem is that Anthony Hudson, and I want

00:51:18.840 to be genuine here.

00:51:19.940 From what I've seen looking around several videos of him, Anthony Hudson seems like a really

00:51:25.440 decent man, right?

00:51:26.960 He seems like a man who really loves America.

00:51:29.620 He's obviously a heritage American, and he is deeply troubled about what is happening.

00:51:36.600 He is Texan, but obviously he's not looking at it by city by city.

00:51:41.500 He's just seeing what's happening to his nation, to America as a whole.

00:51:46.120 And this deeply concerns him.

00:51:47.760 The problem is, of course, that if Anthony hopes to accrue any sense of political influence

00:51:54.220 in Dearborn, then that necessitates giving at least lip service to the Muslims. 0.82

00:52:01.540 And so we have videos online of Anthony in the mosque saying, look, it's not as bad as

00:52:08.220 they make it out here.

00:52:09.140 This is like the Democrat in Minnesota speaking Somalian, isn't it?

00:52:12.260 It is.

00:52:12.760 Yeah.

00:52:12.920 Yeah, exactly that.

00:52:14.420 I was about to ask what his chances are looking like.

00:52:17.360 Well, to be honest with you, I probably should have checked that, but I haven't, because ultimately

00:52:21.840 I mean, if he's having...

00:52:23.100 He's a Republican.

00:52:24.180 I was going to say, if he's having to make these kinds of concessions, then it means no

00:52:29.980 chance.

00:52:30.460 Exactly.

00:52:31.100 Yeah.

00:52:31.420 You can tell it's already, the battle's already been lost.

00:52:34.100 And what's more as well, to just read a little bit further from this article, they basically,

00:52:39.740 the Council on American Islamic Relations, Michigan chapter, which is a thing, said that

00:52:47.540 it welcomed Hudson's apology in a news release.

00:52:51.480 The statement said that Sharia as a concept has been misunderstood and used to ostracize

00:52:57.100 Muslims in society.

00:52:58.340 And so we welcome, quote, Mr. Hudson's remorse for his admitting fear-mongering against the

00:53:04.460 Dearborn community and American Muslims in general, said Executive Director Dawud Waleed.

00:53:11.000 We invite him to further discussions to learn about the Islamic faith and what Muslims generally

00:53:16.480 believe counter to false narratives and misinformation.

00:53:19.840 So they're inviting him for a struggle session, for a re-education struggle session.

00:53:23.780 And so, again, it just comes to a point, you are Americans, if you are serious about the

00:53:30.720 survival of your nation, coming up to its 250th anniversary, and God willing, you'll have

00:53:36.420 250 more, you have got to address this route from, address this from the route of federal

00:53:42.800 power.

00:53:43.480 You're not going to be able to do this city by city, especially as the years go on, the

00:53:48.620 years go on and the demographics worsen.

00:53:51.020 It's got to come from the top.

00:53:53.360 And the open borders came from the top in the first place.

00:53:56.480 Exactly.

00:53:57.060 So that's where it has to end.

00:53:58.600 And it cannot be basically used as a skin suit for provocation, you know, by actors who

00:54:09.620 have foreign interests and foreign allegiances, nor can it be achieved through basically boomers 1.00

00:54:17.020 who are not addressing the key aspects as to why all this happened in the first place.

00:54:23.140 But nonetheless, for Anthony, I still do commend his bravery for going out there in a very, very

00:54:30.940 hostile environment yesterday.

00:54:32.460 And not just one hostile environment, several hostile environments, because also the other

00:54:40.140 crowds were graffitiing his boss as well, writing the word cook on it, which is mature and helpful.

00:54:47.340 And so I have a, there are shortcomings on all sides of this here.

00:54:52.720 But if you are serious, if you want to address it, you've got to get your elected representatives

00:54:57.860 into Congress, into the Senate, and you've got to bang the drum on this.

00:55:02.260 There is no other way through.

00:55:04.360 All right.

00:55:07.640 I'll need a mouse.

00:55:09.760 Yep, sure.

00:55:10.780 Thanks.

00:55:11.280 That one.

00:55:12.140 From Xenothean, who says, I'm once again asking for Luca to regrow his mustache.

00:55:18.820 And I'm once again telling you no.

00:55:21.460 You're going to get that a lot.

00:55:23.680 Why is it a no just out of interest?

00:55:25.920 I just, I just prefer not having it.

00:55:28.500 Oh, okay.

00:55:28.880 I just, I never, I only ever had it for that one period of my life when I first started.

00:55:33.500 And now they are, that's how the name in the want it back.

00:55:36.260 But I'm spiritually still Captain Darling.

00:55:39.100 You should take the Harry tactic, right?

00:55:41.360 Let me explain it to you.

00:55:42.800 You have very distinct looks that people remember and recall you for and want you to go back to.

00:55:50.140 But then you immediately start switching them up rapid fire.

00:55:53.840 Okay.

00:55:54.160 One after another.

00:55:55.200 So there are so many distinctive looks that nobody can ever point in mass to one that they

00:56:01.040 want you to go back to.

00:56:02.500 Got it, Harry.

00:56:03.000 So just keep them confused.

00:56:04.540 I will.

00:56:05.080 I'll be in tomorrow with a suede head.

00:56:06.920 Grow your hair out as long as possible and then overnight shave it for no reason.

00:56:11.280 Grow out mutton chops and then grow a monobrow and then shave your hair, your face completely

00:56:17.480 hairless.

00:56:18.480 Yeah, you see, this whole purple shirt joker vibe is really starting to come through.

00:56:24.340 Wear sunglasses on Lad's Hour for no reason just to stand out from the panel.

00:56:29.560 You can just do things.

00:56:30.920 You can just do things.

00:56:32.240 All right.

00:56:32.640 So AC75 says, load seaters, not so sure you want to push ancient Greek virtue, can't trust

00:56:40.560 virtue ethics from a culture that, okay.

00:56:43.960 Yeah.

00:56:44.480 Well, that's obviously not really what Plato was writing about.

00:56:49.420 That's a massive overstatement as well.

00:56:51.280 Sorry, where are we looking at?

00:56:52.100 It's a steel man.

00:56:53.020 It's just talking about the Athenian ponchant for younger.

00:56:56.720 Metatron has an excellent video going through that, as does LeatherApril.

00:57:02.840 LeatherApril.

00:57:03.920 Yeah, really good.

00:57:04.400 They both have very good videos going through the evidence.

00:57:07.780 Basically, what that is, is a progressive, massive over-exaggeration and cherry picking

00:57:14.520 of very scant evidence to try and paint a picture that is a lie.

00:57:21.980 Propaganda.

00:57:22.920 That's a random name.

00:57:24.060 Says, in the wild, apes often...

00:57:27.780 Do I really want to?

00:57:29.000 You don't have to read it.

00:57:30.320 All right.

00:57:31.820 Wesley, 1924, says, whenever I order a salad, I pick out all of the olives.

00:57:37.940 We should do the same.

00:57:39.380 I like olives now.

00:57:40.560 I'm not going to hear a bad word against olives.

00:57:42.880 Well, all right, Carl.

00:57:44.440 I hate olives.

00:57:44.760 On that note, I was going to call this, are you enjoying the melting pot?

00:57:48.180 But actually, maybe I should call it, are you enjoying the salad bowl?

00:57:50.940 Because we are actually living in the benefits of multiculturalism and diversity, as was projected

00:57:58.380 to us.

00:57:58.660 If we can get the next one up, please, Harry.

00:58:01.220 We can see that the term melting pot, which is the one that they used to use up until about

00:58:06.100 five minutes ago, came from this play by Israel Zangwill, who is an Eastern European Jewish

00:58:13.340 immigrant to America, who wanted, ideally, for all races and nations to basically disappear. 0.89

00:58:21.980 The play itself was about a world where, as you can see, all ethnicity had melted away

00:58:28.820 and he falls in love with a beautiful Russian Christian immigrant named Vera.

00:58:31.840 And so you've got this particular section from it, where the hero David says,

00:58:37.840 There she lies, the great melting pot.

00:58:39.900 Listen, can't you hear the roaring and bubbling?

00:58:42.160 There gapes her mouth, the harbour where a thousand mammoth feeders come from, for the 0.99

00:58:46.260 ends of the world to pour in their human freight.

00:58:49.020 Ah, what a stirring and a seething.

00:58:50.640 Celt and Latin.

00:58:51.440 Slav and Teuton.

00:58:52.240 Greek and Syrian.

00:58:53.000 Black and yellow.

00:58:53.980 Jew and Gentile, Vera interjects. 0.63

00:58:55.860 Yes, east and west.

00:58:57.060 North and south.

00:58:57.720 The palm and the pine.

00:58:59.020 The pole and the equator.

00:59:00.060 The crescent and the cross.

00:59:01.340 How the great alchemist melts and fuses them with his purging flame.

00:59:04.560 Here they shall all unite to build the Republic of Man and the Kingdom of God.

00:59:09.560 Ah, Vera, what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem, where all nations and races come to worship

00:59:14.040 and look back, compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labour and

00:59:18.720 look forward.

00:59:19.340 Is that not just the Tower of Babel? 0.94

00:59:21.060 Yes.

00:59:21.620 Just build the Tower of Babel. 1.00

00:59:23.100 Nothing could go wrong.

00:59:24.320 It ended so well that first time.

00:59:26.400 That sounds horrible.

00:59:28.220 Remarkable as well, though.

00:59:29.520 It immediately goes to, and of course we've got to start in America, where they're actually

00:59:33.380 open to allowing, or they didn't try to start it in China, for example.

00:59:37.500 True, true.

00:59:38.820 But the...

00:59:39.620 Well, it's just turning the entire world into Brazil. 0.93

00:59:42.240 No one wants that.

00:59:42.680 Which worked so well in Brazil.

00:59:45.960 As you can see, this is where the term melting pot was popularly popularised.

00:59:52.300 But you can see the insane idealism in it.

00:59:56.860 Right, so everyone's just going to come here, become the same, and then we'll have the Republic

01:00:00.820 of Man, and the Kingdom of God, and everything will be perfect, and everything will be wonderful.

01:00:04.960 So I thought we'd have a look at just how that's working out for us.

01:00:07.360 This is also a sentiment which has been widespread for years, and spread by a lot of very liberal-minded

01:00:16.240 people.

01:00:17.020 Like, somebody in the Super Chats had mentioned George Carlin.

01:00:20.260 George Carlin spoke in the 90s and early 2000s about how, one, he would like to see all 0.95

01:00:25.280 white people gone. 0.84

01:00:27.360 Interesting.

01:00:27.660 Oh, he probably was saying that since the 70s and 80s.

01:00:29.800 Yeah, and two, that he would like everybody to end up the same shade of brown through 0.78

01:00:34.380 intermixing, which just sounds like a way to completely destroy all variety of culture.

01:00:39.520 Any culture gets destroyed.

01:00:41.020 Throughout the entire world.

01:00:41.960 And there's also, what was his name?

01:00:43.220 That Anthony Bourdain, or whatever his name was, the celebrity chef guy.

01:00:47.440 There's that clip that goes around of him tasting different foods across the world,

01:00:51.460 where he goes, the only way that we can get rid of all conflict in the world is by just

01:00:56.080 making everybody the same shade of brown.

01:00:58.940 That's not how that works.

01:01:00.480 Okay, let's assume that, do we really think that would be the end of conflict?

01:01:04.500 Do people only...

01:01:05.100 I believe in the Middle East, a lot of them are all the same shade of brown. 1.00

01:01:08.160 Yeah, exactly.

01:01:08.840 Do people only ever fight over different skin shades?

01:01:11.700 No!

01:01:12.420 They have lots of different reasons to fight.

01:01:14.720 In fact, very rarely is a war declared because the other guys are a different colour skin than

01:01:19.040 me, but I can't even think about one that was.

01:01:21.320 It's also just this weird fetishisation of the idea of mixed-race people being better

01:01:27.360 and superior in some magical abstract way.

01:01:30.220 Or some more peaceful or something like this.

01:01:30.920 Yeah, which is, again, it's just a weird form of racism.

01:01:33.940 But you can see that what this is, is essentially the liberal ideal.

01:01:37.540 Right.

01:01:37.860 John Lennon's Imagine.

01:01:38.800 It's John Lennon's Imagine.

01:01:39.840 This is an old idea that liberals have always had in their heads, where actually we are not

01:01:44.440 married to our place and time and purpose, and therefore we can just...

01:01:49.040 extract ourselves from the context in which we are born and raised, and the values, and

01:01:53.000 the norms, and the customs, and the cultures that we have, and we can all just become the

01:01:57.120 same at the end of it.

01:01:58.500 It's like, no, that's obviously not happening, and so how are things going?

01:02:02.040 I mean, we're all living through the ethnic melting pot, or should I say the salad bowl 1.00

01:02:06.580 at this point, and this is something that Anna Kasparian and Tucker Carlson brought up

01:02:10.620 is like, well, hang on a second, this isn't perfect.

01:02:12.780 The other thing is, even if you're doing well, even if you're affluent, do you really want

01:02:20.100 to live in a country where as soon as you walk outside your door, there's a massive homeless

01:02:23.700 encampment?

01:02:24.340 Oh, I agree.

01:02:26.400 You know, do you really want to live in a country like that?

01:02:28.180 Because I don't.

01:02:29.260 Do you want to live in a country where close to 100,000 of your fellow Americans are dying

01:02:35.020 of drug overdoses, and our government seems to not really care much, and in fact, exploits

01:02:40.300 that as a talking point to justify a potential war with Venezuela, which has nothing to do

01:02:45.920 with fentanyl, by the way.

01:02:47.280 That's for sure.

01:02:47.740 I know.

01:02:48.880 So, it's everywhere, right?

01:02:51.640 And the benefits of being in the salad bowl, or the melting pot, however you want to describe

01:02:55.480 it, are everywhere.

01:02:56.820 And so, I mean, we've become Americanized just like America.

01:02:59.800 You'll remember Ed Davey on the train going, hang on.

01:03:03.340 We're doing some champion dog whistling.

01:03:05.840 Accidentally based.

01:03:06.900 I keep saying the Liberal Democrats are a racial party.

01:03:10.560 They are the racial party of Midland.

01:03:12.140 They just don't realize it.

01:03:13.440 Exactly.

01:03:14.040 They just don't realize that they are part of the salad bowl.

01:03:18.640 They are like the lettuce or something.

01:03:20.260 You know, a large amount of the salad bowl.

01:03:22.440 And they're hearing the tomatoes and being like, why are the tomatoes making all of this

01:03:25.840 noise?

01:03:26.560 It's like, because you don't understand them.

01:03:28.460 They're not like you, and you don't understand them.

01:03:30.300 Ed Davey, I guess you're like, yeah, that was racist, Ed.

01:03:35.200 That was you being a racist right there, which is funny.

01:03:41.060 But that's why this was your most popular post in years.

01:03:44.440 Correct, actually.

01:03:45.800 Which is why, like, you were actually hitting on a real issue that has come from the mixing

01:03:51.220 in the salad bowl.

01:03:52.340 Because they're not forced to adopt your customs.

01:03:54.940 They're not forced to adopt your manners.

01:03:56.380 They're not forced to adopt your ways.

01:03:57.620 Because they still act as if they were back home.

01:04:01.380 It's a fantastic moment as well, isn't it?

01:04:03.460 It's very telling.

01:04:04.180 Because actually, you know, a lot of the Lib Dem voting heartlands are still obviously

01:04:08.720 very homogenous.

01:04:10.280 And so actually, they're coming into contact with the diversity on the trains when they're

01:04:15.240 traveling between places.

01:04:16.640 Yeah, when they're traveling to London, they interact with the diversity.

01:04:20.380 And they're like, my God, why are they being so rude?

01:04:22.900 Great question.

01:04:23.820 Why are they being so rude?

01:04:25.160 If only we could understand.

01:04:26.960 So if we give every Lib Dem voter a week-long trip to Brixton, the party immediately is radicalized.

01:04:34.360 Free rail cards for Lib Dem voters.

01:04:36.640 Well, I've said this before.

01:04:37.760 The Lib Dems are not actually haters of Britain.

01:04:40.540 The second that machetes are running down their street, they're going to vote for the

01:04:43.380 BNP.

01:04:44.520 They just think that they can, you know, they live in essentially the Isles of the Blessed,

01:04:50.720 where nothing bad ever happens.

01:04:52.280 And it's like, okay, but you're not going to live there forever.

01:04:53.920 There won't be a Shire Pippin.

01:04:55.600 Exactly.

01:04:56.720 Exactly.

01:04:57.200 They're living in the Shires and everything's great, so they can't understand why you're

01:05:00.500 such an evil right-winger.

01:05:01.780 But they'll learn.

01:05:03.120 Anyway, so there was this clip going around from an American train where this woman is

01:05:07.520 trying to persuade, you can see she's an elderly lady. 0.61

01:05:11.120 And customarily, if, you know, Harry, you were sat on a train and there was an elderly 1.00

01:05:15.360 lady there saying, oh, my legs are really hurting, can anyone give up the seat?

01:05:18.540 I mean, you might think by giving up your seat.

01:05:20.020 Nah.

01:05:20.260 I believe in quality.

01:05:22.820 I believe in quality.

01:05:25.220 Any takers, I'll give you everything in my pockets.

01:05:30.280 Don't say that, you might have some money.

01:05:32.520 I'll give you money, I'm not asking you for money.

01:05:34.880 I'll take you to get up off your seat and let an old woman. 1.00

01:05:39.660 Any Gen X losers? 1.00

01:05:42.440 Nobody. 0.98

01:05:43.520 I got money.

01:05:44.140 I will pay to have a seat.

01:05:46.120 How about millennials?

01:05:47.600 What?

01:05:48.480 Millennials.

01:05:49.700 Millennials.

01:05:50.340 Gen X.

01:05:51.460 Anybody?

01:05:52.600 Attention shop.

01:05:54.280 But all of the people around her, not quite sad.

01:05:57.980 That's just a tragic video.

01:05:59.460 Yeah, it's very sad.

01:06:01.400 It's very sad.

01:06:02.200 But this is the thing.

01:06:04.680 In previous eras, it's likely that someone would have just got up and given her a seat.

01:06:10.000 Now, it's a bunch of people.

01:06:11.520 You notice how they're all different ethnicities as well.

01:06:14.880 Like, you know, these people, you know, don't share anything between each other.

01:06:20.720 They just, I'm not listening.

01:06:22.640 I've got my headphones on.

01:06:23.520 I don't care about any of you.

01:06:25.120 There is no society here.

01:06:26.600 This is the salad bowl.

01:06:27.560 Well, this is one of the things that's very informative about those Amazon studies that

01:06:33.640 had been done on Amazon warehouses, where they had a diversity index, where they were

01:06:38.980 basically trying to min-max everything within the factories to prevent strikes, to prevent

01:06:45.080 the staff from unionizing.

01:06:46.620 And one of the things that they found was that a more diverse workplace was one of the biggest

01:06:53.420 indicators that it would not unionize, that it would not begin striking and working as

01:06:59.460 an organized collective.

01:07:00.600 And that's what you see here.

01:07:01.840 That's one of the reasons I perhaps feel like our countries have had their borders opened

01:07:07.340 to let in so much diversity.

01:07:10.440 is, this is something AA has spoken about a lot recently, and I do think it's true, which

01:07:15.700 is that organized capital likes diverse workforces, because one, it means that the price of labor

01:07:23.520 goes down hugely, two, it reduces the chances of them striking, because none of these people

01:07:28.460 get along anymore.

01:07:29.280 Even in the early 20th century, in late 19th century, when the labor market in the US was

01:07:35.340 flooded with new labor because of the abolition of slavery following the Civil War,

01:07:40.440 what was it those new black workers were used for a lot of the time?

01:07:45.800 Strike breaking.

01:07:47.000 That happened a lot.

01:07:48.680 They were being used, taken advantage of, it has to be said, by capitalists to break these

01:07:55.360 strikes.

01:07:55.920 That's not saying that we should all be communists or socialists or that markets are inherently

01:08:00.120 terrible or anything, but from the perspective of human action, what people did, that's what

01:08:06.160 happened.

01:08:06.500 And this is one of those points where the sort of Gary Stephensons of the world just can't

01:08:10.540 discuss how this is being done.

01:08:12.960 It's like, oh, I hate all the rich.

01:08:14.480 Well, you're in favor of diversity and immigration.

01:08:17.520 You're the one making them this rich.

01:08:19.680 Your politics allows them to get to this point.

01:08:22.200 But that Amazon thing, that might be worth going to a bit of a deeper dive on, because

01:08:25.180 I've never even heard of that.

01:08:25.900 I've spoken about it before, but I can dig it up again, because it is interesting.

01:08:30.460 And then, so, you know, you get videos like this.

01:08:33.360 This is a lady in Germany.

01:08:34.400 I'm just going to play it with this.

01:08:35.120 Because she's just like, you know, what am I, what, what is going on here?

01:08:42.540 Just towns full of strangers, people who you don't recognize.

01:08:47.480 They're just everywhere.

01:08:48.320 And they're all from different places.

01:08:50.380 This is the salad bowl at work.

01:08:52.340 Does the place look better?

01:08:53.860 Does it look like it's improved?

01:08:56.020 I mean, you know, is this the kind of country that you actually want to live in?

01:09:00.240 Where you just have small groups of people who, like, essentially cloister into themselves?

01:09:06.180 It really is indicative as well of how that whole idea that Israel Zangwill was putting

01:09:11.320 forward of the melting pot, bringing the best out of everybody, was completely wrong, because

01:09:16.840 it does destroy the diversity of cultures.

01:09:19.020 Because you see her walking around like that, and you see the kinds of shops these people 0.92

01:09:23.460 are opening.

01:09:24.320 They are the same as are infesting so many high streets across England.

01:09:29.280 And it actually flattens everything down.

01:09:32.440 All culture becomes the same. 0.82

01:09:34.220 It becomes a monolithic non-culture.

01:09:36.720 Yep.

01:09:37.540 It's exactly right.

01:09:38.680 You know, the sort of international franchise that can be run by any people from anywhere

01:09:42.940 and is always the same in all places.

01:09:45.600 And just the general sort of nature of it.

01:09:47.080 It's like, okay, we're going to get a couple of people from each different area of the world,

01:09:50.620 and then we'll put them here.

01:09:51.500 And in every city, it's the same.

01:09:53.000 So it's like, okay, but this is not actually different.

01:09:55.320 You know, this is just sameness, just a kind of, you know, but again, I guess we say diversity

01:10:00.860 is their strength on this.

01:10:02.460 But anyway, so yeah, now you've got the sort of diverse society. 0.94

01:10:05.800 You get lovely stuff like this, you know, the river of rubbish in Oxford.

01:10:10.760 Was this real?

01:10:12.100 I assumed this was AI.

01:10:12.920 No, no, this is completely real.

01:10:14.280 I assumed it was AI.

01:10:14.820 Harry, can we zoom in a bit on the screen, just because the pictures are a little bit

01:10:18.500 small.

01:10:19.520 It's fine.

01:10:20.380 Thank you.

01:10:21.020 Yeah, this is completely real. 0.93

01:10:22.380 This is an industrially processed stream of rubbish that's just been fly-tipped in Oxford. 0.99

01:10:29.920 Hundreds of tons of just rubbish. 0.99

01:10:33.400 It's just great. 0.95

01:10:34.500 It's just fine.

01:10:35.580 Because nobody cares.

01:10:36.820 In Oxfordshire.

01:10:37.740 In Oxfordshire.

01:10:38.460 In one of the most beautiful parts of the country.

01:10:39.980 The part that inspires Hulking Shires now looks like this. 0.93

01:10:43.980 Exactly.

01:10:44.440 This is just part of being in, sorry, I keep saying the melting pot.

01:10:47.220 It's the salad bowl.

01:10:48.200 The salad bowl is where we are.

01:10:50.260 There are, you know, diverse happenings everywhere, like immigrants stealing from the honesty boxes, 1.00

01:10:56.620 which is great.

01:10:59.340 I mean, you know, good sense to cover their faces.

01:11:03.180 But so you can't.

01:11:04.200 Well, one of them did.

01:11:04.920 Oh yeah, one of them did.

01:11:05.800 Oh my God.

01:11:06.500 So you can't have honesty boxes anymore.

01:11:08.540 You can't have the normal things that you grew up knowing about and expecting.

01:11:14.580 These things are just, you know, not the way.

01:11:17.700 I mean, that should just be grounds for deportation right there.

01:11:20.820 Yeah.

01:11:21.060 Yeah, of course.

01:11:21.460 The honesty boxes for me is like the institution of the countryside.

01:11:26.560 It shows that I am in non-occupied territory if there are honesty boxes.

01:11:31.900 If they're going and taking advantage of that the same way they like to take advantage of

01:11:35.580 everything to do with our high trust society, gone.

01:11:39.060 Yeah, absolutely.

01:11:41.080 It's just gone.

01:11:41.840 I'm not even going to give you a boat or a ticket.

01:11:43.920 I'm just going to give you some armbands and a life raft.

01:11:46.660 Yeah, but then there's, you know, there's stealing from honesty boxes.

01:11:50.180 But then there's just these where it's just brazen shoplifting in, you know, major stores

01:11:56.020 and stuff like that.

01:11:57.380 I'll skip ahead a bit.

01:11:59.760 You can see them just looting.

01:12:02.180 It's just looting.

01:12:03.320 And then just walking out.

01:12:04.080 It's like, look, man, I actually don't want to live in a salad bowl like this.

01:12:08.200 If this is the product of the salad bowl, I don't want this.

01:12:12.140 I don't, like, it doesn't personally affect me, but it does speak to the kind of tone

01:12:18.820 and the kind of people that I'm sharing a civilization with.

01:12:21.900 They're just prepared to just steal.

01:12:25.420 And that's one of the things.

01:12:27.800 It's a psychological, it's a psychic tone, an undertone that then affects everything

01:12:34.660 that you do, everywhere you go.

01:12:36.900 It's because there is this knowledge nestled in the back of your mind.

01:12:40.100 I cannot trust the people that I am surrounded by.

01:12:43.440 I cannot relate to these people.

01:12:45.280 If something bad were to happen to me for any circumstance, these people would not support me.

01:12:51.000 Yeah, they wouldn't help.

01:12:52.080 And the thing is as well, like, okay, I don't break the rules because I think it would be

01:12:56.320 wrong to say, go and steal.

01:12:57.800 But if someone doesn't think it's wrong to go and steal, what else do they think is not wrong?

01:13:02.320 Like, I don't know that they're not prepared to go further than that and that this wasn't

01:13:06.320 just an opportunity for them, right?

01:13:08.740 Who knows?

01:13:09.320 I don't know.

01:13:10.140 And as you say, this ruins the trust in the society itself.

01:13:13.640 We can't be sure of the people around us.

01:13:16.180 So why would we want to live like that?

01:13:19.080 But anyway, that's just, again, some parts of the salad bowl.

01:13:22.120 But then here's another one.

01:13:23.000 This was a debate from the Oxford Union.

01:13:25.480 And it's just really remarkable how the salad bowl is full of people with so many conflicting

01:13:31.140 opinions.

01:13:31.700 This is the Oxford Union.

01:13:46.100 You know how many young English children would wish for the opportunity to go to Oxford.

01:13:52.440 I know.

01:13:53.060 And instead, we've got hysterical members of the salad bowl screeching and shouting at them. 0.99

01:13:59.640 That looks like something straight out of a mid-2000s reality show.

01:14:03.640 Yeah, it does.

01:14:03.960 When they're at the club and everything breaks down.

01:14:06.740 Yeah.

01:14:07.720 And yet, this is now the society in which we're living.

01:14:10.860 These are just normal events, occurrences, in the multicultural...

01:14:16.420 Like I said, I shouldn't say melting pot, because they reject the term melting pot now, but in

01:14:21.320 the salad bowl.

01:14:21.940 So, okay, great.

01:14:23.120 So, let's go on some more diverse happenings, shall we?

01:14:26.140 How about Tower Hamlets?

01:14:28.060 Something's happened in Bangladesh.

01:14:30.060 Now, I didn't look into this.

01:14:32.020 I don't care what's happened in Bangladesh. 0.67

01:14:33.980 But the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets is bloody angry about something happening in

01:14:39.340 Bangladesh.

01:14:39.640 Bangladesh!

01:14:39.940 Bangladesh!

01:14:40.640 Bangladesh!

01:14:41.040 Bangladesh!

01:14:41.200 Bangladesh!

01:14:42.200 Bangladesh!

01:14:43.200 Bangladesh!

01:14:43.640 Bangladesh!

01:14:44.200 Bangladesh!

01:14:44.680 Bangladesh!

01:14:44.760 Bangladesh!

01:14:45.200 Bangladesh!

01:14:45.260 Bangladesh!

01:14:45.400 Bangladesh!

01:14:46.400 I can't even understand what they're complaining about, because it's not in English.

01:14:51.760 Probably angry that the British government haven't built them an airport in Bangladesh

01:14:55.160 yet.

01:14:55.760 Probably.

01:14:56.620 Apparently, the ex-Bangladesh leader, Sheikh Hasina, has been sentenced to death over a

01:15:01.040 crackdown on protests.

01:15:01.980 So, there were student protests in Bangladesh.

01:15:04.520 So, okay, I can see why the Bangladeshi portion of the salad is very upset about this, 1.00

01:15:10.700 but I don't care why are they here?

01:15:12.840 Why aren't they protesting in Bangladesh?

01:15:14.920 Why are they in my salad?

01:15:16.120 Like, this is the melting pot.

01:15:19.060 This is the whole thing.

01:15:19.720 You sat there eating your salad, and it's like, ah, the tomatoes are going, rising up

01:15:24.020 against the, against the lettuce.

01:15:26.680 Oh, fantastic.

01:15:27.620 Exactly.

01:15:27.920 It's like they've come and spatting your meal.

01:15:30.340 Yeah, kind of, yeah.

01:15:31.340 It's, like, genuinely like something, someone has put something deeply unpleasant.

01:15:35.900 But it gets more unpleasant, of course.

01:15:37.740 You have, apparently in Nottinghamshire, two men brandishing knives at a Christmas market

01:15:42.780 in Nottingham City Centre.

01:15:44.940 So, you know, brilliant.

01:15:46.460 That's great.

01:15:47.100 That's just so great.

01:15:48.060 I love this salad.

01:15:49.500 This is the most delicious Caesar salad that I've ever had.

01:15:52.840 It's just literally lunatics with knives in the middle of the salad.

01:15:55.300 Why are they here? 1.00

01:15:56.060 And get stamped on like Caesar.

01:15:57.380 Exactly.

01:15:58.160 It's like, this is, this is just not what anyone asked for.

01:16:04.120 And we've had this imposed upon us.

01:16:06.000 And so the question is, okay, well, are we enjoying what they have done?

01:16:09.720 Are we happy with what they have brought us?

01:16:12.260 I mean, in Germany, you had a brilliant one.

01:16:14.600 As you can see, large crowds of Muslim men walking through the Christmas market chanting,

01:16:17.700 there is no God but Allah. 0.68

01:16:19.200 Allah Akbar.

01:16:20.240 Thank goodness.

01:16:20.900 Let's watch this.

01:16:26.900 There's something about this that genuinely annoys me on a, on a gen, not even, I don't

01:16:37.560 want to say spiritual level, but there is something about it that's like, you know, what, how has

01:16:44.060 this been allowed to happen?

01:16:45.620 You know, like the Christmas market for anyone who doesn't know is a nice European tradition

01:16:49.660 where we go to nice little markets and buy little things for people for Christmas.

01:16:54.320 They're always a nice day out.

01:16:56.900 And this is just some sort of psychic attack on the very nature of the way that we carry

01:17:02.540 on our society.

01:17:03.280 I mean, if it's not enough that we have to have diversity bollards outside all of the 1.00

01:17:06.980 Christmas markets, I mean, I guess we should be thankful they're not driving a car into

01:17:10.300 it, but small pleasures, small upsides.

01:17:14.260 The thing is as well, that as far as the establishment's history with dealing with this sort of thing is

01:17:20.620 concerned, of course, every now and then we might, you know, thank them so gratefully that

01:17:25.780 they've deported one person, five people, whatever it is.

01:17:29.220 Right.

01:17:29.540 But the point is everyone there should not be in Germany.

01:17:32.700 None of them should be there.

01:17:34.540 But the problem is as well that one of the reasons why the situation, why people are getting

01:17:38.940 so angry as well, they would have been less angry if the establishment had just had the

01:17:44.380 foresight to go, well, actually, there is at least a standard of foreigner and their behaviour

01:17:51.640 in our country that is unacceptable.

01:17:54.160 But what we didn't even get that, it was actually, no, once they're here, they are here in perpetuity, 1.00

01:18:00.620 regardless of whether or not they're the worst scum in the world. 0.98

01:18:04.040 And they connect as an anchor to bring all of the rest of their family as well. 0.99

01:18:07.940 And moreover, there's no obligation put on them, right?

01:18:10.940 As in, like, if we were going to have immigration, we should have said, right, there will never 1.00

01:18:15.040 be a foreign temple and a foreign church, a foreign mosque or whatever in this country.

01:18:20.100 If you come here, you will adopt Christianity. 1.00

01:18:22.840 If you come here, you will dress in this way.

01:18:25.260 You will live in this way.

01:18:26.800 And if, you know, if we were serious about immigration and integration, then we would have

01:18:31.080 had really overbearing rules for immigrants. 0.98

01:18:33.680 I disagree.

01:18:34.480 There is one obligation put on them.

01:18:37.960 And it ties back to my former point, which is spend.

01:18:42.140 Okay, fair.

01:18:42.920 Good point.

01:18:43.500 You are an interchangeable economic widget.

01:18:46.460 Yeah, that's true.

01:18:46.860 You come here and you keep money changing hands at our markets, at our big corporate stores.

01:18:53.640 But the point being, if this was actually being done for the good of the population, then

01:18:59.420 it would have had, it would have come with really overbearing social rules. 0.70

01:19:02.880 It didn't, because exactly right, it was done for capital.

01:19:05.820 No doubt about it.

01:19:07.060 And in fact, they're completely honest about it.

01:19:08.760 They're like, yeah, well, what about the GDP?

01:19:10.500 Okay, the GDP hasn't gone up.

01:19:11.780 Now what?

01:19:12.320 You know, do we get rid of these people?

01:19:13.500 I mean, after Brexit, there was that guy who ran, I think he might still be in charge

01:19:17.520 of Next, Lord Wolfson, who said that, oh no, I'm hoping that there are no immigration

01:19:22.940 restrictions put in place, because we need the workers.

01:19:25.840 Well, Boris heard you loud and clear, Lord Wolfson.

01:19:27.980 Because it's not like English teenagers could ever get a job at Next, like all of my friends

01:19:34.420 did out of school.

01:19:36.000 And then, just finally, you get these events where it's just on the underground, apparently

01:19:40.600 some kid with a machete ran past and everyone's panicking.

01:19:42.700 I'm sure everyone's glad to be in the salad bowl at this point.

01:20:11.860 So, you know, someone's just become a statistic.

01:20:15.560 And this is the reality of their lives.

01:20:18.100 And so, if we, you know, go back, you can see like, yeah, you've got homeless, you've

01:20:22.840 got, you know, the sort of range of things.

01:20:26.280 Yeah, you've got public disruptions.

01:20:27.540 You've got impoliteness.

01:20:29.160 You've got the general degradation of the area.

01:20:32.460 You've got the increase in crime.

01:20:34.640 You've got the complete antisocial behaviour from self-interested groups who don't care

01:20:40.140 about you at all.

01:20:41.040 And then you get to the violence and to the actual danger.

01:20:43.900 And you have to ask yourself, well, was this what we were promised?

01:20:47.040 And the answer is probably yes.

01:20:48.880 This is what they wanted.

01:20:50.380 The salad bowl.

01:20:51.860 Why are we giving up our countries to this?

01:20:53.620 All right, we've got a few more super chats and rumble rants coming.

01:21:00.100 I'll read one that is addressed directly to me from Cranky Texan saying, thank you, Harry.

01:21:04.600 Looking at geopolitical events from the perspective of organised capital, I think it's important

01:21:08.780 to add international in there as well.

01:21:11.640 As you put it, makes everything seem much more rational and evil.

01:21:16.300 Look up inverted totalitarianism.

01:21:18.340 I will do.

01:21:19.020 Thank you.

01:21:19.360 And yeah, I just want to add a clarification.

01:21:22.740 People should absolutely have opportunity to make money, start their own businesses, and

01:21:28.360 to, you know, become, you can become billionaires.

01:21:32.800 You can become capitalists.

01:21:34.340 But I do think there needs to be some kind of guardrails mandating that your actions,

01:21:40.580 if you become a large organisation like that, have to be directed in the best interests of

01:21:46.700 the nation, the nation as defined as a people in a time and place with a cultural and ancestral

01:21:54.100 continuity.

01:21:54.980 But moreover, why should they be allowed to deform the society they're benefiting from?

01:21:59.480 That's the real question, right?

01:22:00.860 Because like, okay, we're going to bring in loads of workers.

01:22:03.320 Why?

01:22:04.080 Why would we allow that?

01:22:05.340 You know, like, I agree with you.

01:22:06.580 Obviously, you know, I'm a business owner.

01:22:07.960 But it's, I don't want to change the society in which I live, you know, and the fact that

01:22:14.280 they're just obviously so cavalier about all of that just for profits, it's awful.

01:22:18.260 I will just say as well, it's a remarkable testament, actually, to the endurance and genius of our

01:22:26.240 ancestors that England is even still alive after everything that it's basically been made

01:22:33.660 to withstand over these past decades, it shows what a robust society we actually inherited.

01:22:39.380 We have a strong temperament.

01:22:41.220 Yes.

01:22:44.220 Okay.

01:22:44.780 Should we go to the video comments?

01:22:45.840 Sorry, we're running out of time.

01:22:46.760 Sure.

01:22:47.140 Yeah, okay.

01:22:48.340 I don't have a mouse.

01:22:51.320 Our high-trust society has already gone, especially in the cities, but we're very aware of the problems

01:22:55.680 that there are, and there seems no signs of a solution in sight, just conflict.

01:23:00.080 Lebanonization beckons.

01:23:01.040 I mean, that is the worry, that if it's not solved, people like, what is it, that Patrick

01:23:07.900 something around?

01:23:09.080 Patrick Deneen.

01:23:10.920 Maybe.

01:23:11.900 One of the ones who's constantly talking about civil war.

01:23:15.840 Oh, David Betts.

01:23:16.760 David Betts.

01:23:17.400 Yeah, that's his name.

01:23:18.520 I was thinking Patrick Betts-Davis, who's the podcaster, isn't he?

01:23:22.000 Yeah, David Betts.

01:23:23.180 This idea of civil war, like it'll all just reach a flashpoint and explode, and then all

01:23:29.640 of a sudden it'll be one side pitted against the other.

01:23:32.020 I do think that things are, you know, pitted sides already.

01:23:35.320 Sure.

01:23:35.500 The thing is, I agree more with those who assess this as resulting in more of a low-level conflict

01:23:42.280 that sparks up every now and again, and then goes back down, because we've seen across

01:23:46.460 the third world how people can just kind of put up with low-level conflict for their

01:23:52.540 entire lives.

01:23:53.760 As long as there is a government, even an unstable government, in place, people will

01:23:59.680 just kind of get on and try to avoid danger as much as possible without there being a massive

01:24:05.180 revolution.

01:24:05.880 That's what I worry about, that it goes on forever.

01:24:13.260 A teddy bear with anatomically correct innards.

01:24:16.280 A pink, sentient switchblade.

01:24:18.660 Hi, Beth.

01:24:19.160 You've gotten taller. 0.72

01:24:20.220 Shall we resume stabbing? 0.69

01:24:25.060 Okay.

01:24:25.940 Okay.

01:24:26.800 All right.

01:24:27.400 I hadn't even heard about that.

01:24:28.700 Yeah, me neither.

01:24:29.260 I would like to share with you all some sections that I've highlighted of Mary Richmond's Wikipedia

01:24:39.640 article, where I couldn't help but notice some rather heavy bias, including the fact

01:24:47.720 that it says she was apparently around such strong, intelligent women, i.e. her grandmother 0.84

01:24:55.260 and two ones.

01:24:59.120 I'm not familiar with this person.

01:25:00.820 I'm not either, but no one's ever accused Wikipedia of being neutral.

01:25:04.060 No, which is why it's better that we have Grokipedia now. 0.99

01:25:07.080 Did you see that clip of one of the co-founders of Wikipedia being asked on a podcast?

01:25:11.220 Jimmy Wales.

01:25:12.040 Yeah, yeah.

01:25:12.420 If he was the co-founder or the founder, and he just, like, storms off at being asked the

01:25:16.440 question a couple of times.

01:25:16.780 Because the other co-founder's based.

01:25:18.600 Yeah.

01:25:19.120 And he keeps speaking out against it.

01:25:20.640 And he keeps saying, don't trust Wikipedia.

01:25:22.420 Yeah, yeah.

01:25:22.780 Like, everyone's genuinely outraged about this.

01:25:27.000 And rightly so.

01:25:29.340 Hmm.

01:25:30.720 Actually, this is completely fine.

01:25:33.940 Why?

01:25:34.940 Because until the appropriate response to this is actively promoted and endorsed by every

01:25:40.080 single person in quote-unquote power, I don't care.

01:25:44.640 The countryside could be destroyed.

01:25:46.300 If that's what's necessary for every single leftist to denounce their position, so be it.

01:25:53.920 Honestly, there's a part of me that really wants to endorse accelerationism, too.

01:25:58.500 Well, leftists aren't going to give up their positions.

01:26:02.060 This is, like, the thing that you've got to understand about democracy is it's not actually

01:26:06.460 democratic.

01:26:07.080 Everybody overnight could come over to our side.

01:26:11.520 But if the actual positions being offered by those in power aren't what we're after,

01:26:16.920 you won't get it without some kind of infiltration or revolution.

01:26:20.960 To be fair, I think there is something interesting that's happened with Siobhan and Mahmoud recently.

01:26:25.280 Which is, you've doubtless seen the clips of her being the most radical leftist in the 0.96

01:26:30.320 world prior to the advent of her getting to government.

01:26:33.440 And then she's like, oh no, the system's ruined and immigration is out of control. 0.98

01:26:38.600 So it's like, you can see how it's, you know, ideologically, she feels a certain way.

01:26:43.000 But then actually, oh, I want to make sure this system persists into the future.

01:26:46.740 Well, I can't.

01:26:47.740 I've got to do something about it. 0.96

01:26:49.240 And so, you know, Carla Denya and whatnot, you know, screaming she's a fascist. 1.00

01:26:52.820 It's like, well, maybe your BS is just nonsense. 0.93

01:26:57.220 You know, the most, you know, momentary contact with reality is like, yeah, no, all of this

01:27:02.320 has to be fixed.

01:27:03.480 Well, she's realizing as well, and this is the thing that Mahmoud is realizing, if we

01:27:08.080 don't do something, some sort of gesture, then basically we're going down.

01:27:14.220 Not just we're going down, the entire immigrant class is going to be pointed at and saying,

01:27:20.160 you keep advocating for your own interests.

01:27:22.360 So she's got to show some interest to what the majority wants. 1.00

01:27:26.140 And meanwhile, the brain-dead zealots in the back benches can't get it into their heads

01:27:31.060 that she is actually still fighting on their side.

01:27:33.980 She's just thinking two steps ahead of them.

01:27:36.040 Exactly.

01:27:36.420 She's fighting for the system that has brought this about. 1.00

01:27:38.640 Yes.

01:27:39.020 Not for some radical change.

01:27:40.900 In case there were any red pills today, here is my kitten's first reaction to this fish

01:27:54.000 toy.

01:27:55.760 It doesn't look like he trusts it, does it?

01:27:57.700 Oh, he's got his little tongue stuck out.

01:27:59.960 I love cats.

01:28:00.480 Oh, that's just so sweet.

01:28:01.720 Yeah.

01:28:01.980 Wonderful.

01:28:02.860 My wife sent me a video of a compilation of cats trashing everything in their house.

01:28:09.060 They do that sometimes.

01:28:10.320 Well, I've got six cats, and none of them do.

01:28:12.660 Yeah, I know.

01:28:13.160 My wife wants more babies, but instead we end up getting cats. 0.92

01:28:18.200 At least you already had children.

01:28:19.680 Yeah, I know.

01:28:20.340 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:28:20.640 They made that decision without having children at all.

01:28:22.600 Yeah, it's like, can we have another baby?

01:28:24.880 No, we cannot have another baby, so I end up with another kitten, which is not the worst

01:28:28.160 in the world.

01:28:28.460 But they're all really placid, and they've never wrecked anything, he says, crossing his

01:28:32.920 fingers.

01:28:33.500 So I'm just watching these cats, like, spurging out and ruining it.

01:28:37.760 I mean, I'm glad this doesn't happen, but, you know, I don't know.

01:28:41.460 I don't have anywhere to go.

01:28:42.120 See, my parents have two cats.

01:28:43.980 I can't have cats, because sadly I'm deadly allergic to them, so if I'm in the same house

01:28:48.080 as them for too long, I start to die.

01:28:49.680 Uh, but my daughter loves, loves the cats, who are normally so well behaved at my parents,

01:28:57.900 but my god, it's like my daughter is trying to get them to destroy things.

01:29:02.200 One in particular hates.

01:29:04.700 She just legs it the second my daughter even gets, like, any... 1.00

01:29:08.720 Is she too rough with them, is she? 0.99

01:29:10.400 Um, no.

01:29:11.580 This cat was a stray, and, like, grew up a stray, so she's just very, very skittish.

01:29:17.400 Right, right, right.

01:29:17.860 And she does not yet trust my daughter, which is fair, because she is a toddler.

01:29:23.000 Yes.

01:29:23.340 But she does, like, she's very, she's normally very gentle, but every so often, she'll go,

01:29:29.000 like, oh, that tail looks funny.

01:29:30.700 Yeah.

01:29:32.280 It's bad.

01:29:33.940 Well, we've got, uh, we had, uh, two polls today, and it seems that, uh, Carl, you win,

01:29:39.780 uh, best tie for a presenter, with a respectable 56% of the vote.

01:29:44.900 I was happy with this tie.

01:29:45.880 And, uh, although...

01:29:46.800 Oh, my sleazebag look didn't win any points today, did it?

01:29:49.040 I can't believe it.

01:29:49.560 No.

01:29:50.000 Although, unfortunately, and I'm less enthusiastic about this result, um, 64% say that I should

01:29:57.060 get a buzz cut.

01:29:57.980 Well, don't worry about democracy, Luca.

01:29:59.880 What they don't realise is, I hate democracy, and I don't accept its results, so we won't be

01:30:05.980 doing that.

01:30:06.560 I think we also do have one more video comment from Zesty King.

01:30:10.100 Okay.

01:30:11.520 I'll take it.

01:30:13.920 I'll take the ring to Mordorio.

01:30:15.600 Is the audio on?

01:30:16.820 Aye.

01:30:17.520 Mr. Anderson.

01:30:19.440 Even in this secret council meeting, you seem...

01:30:24.680 inevitable.

01:30:29.300 What the f...

01:30:30.720 What?

01:30:33.540 There's a great, uh, comment.

01:30:34.740 That was his original cut.

01:30:36.560 The studio was furious.

01:30:38.620 There's a great comment by Fane Scotty here that I wanted to read before we end.

01:30:41.420 Oh, yeah.

01:30:41.980 Calling them the Epstein class is such a baller move.

01:30:44.780 It's perfect thick language, and we need more speech like that.

01:30:46.780 Yeah, that's a good point.

01:30:47.560 The Epstein class is a good way of delineating them from us. 0.95

01:30:50.800 Yeah.

01:30:51.140 Yeah, definitely.

01:30:52.380 All right, then.

01:30:53.060 Uh, I've got time to just read one or two from mine.

01:30:55.420 Uh, AZ Desert Rat says, um, sorry, no.

01:30:59.700 Uh, Lord Inquisitor X says, uh, if you want to look into, uh, Dearborn Mort, there are tons 0.95

01:31:05.160 of Muslims and Indians committing healthcare fraud in Minnesota. 0.97

01:31:08.340 No kidding. 0.93

01:31:09.200 And, uh, they state, the state is turning a blind eye to it, and it's so blatant.

01:31:14.460 Yeah, none of this surprises me.

01:31:16.100 Again, these problems in every city across the West, wherever they go, they bring the

01:31:21.740 same problems.

01:31:22.340 Well, again, the whole point of the, um, welfare state was, it was a high-trust society.

01:31:27.720 It was too, we were here to, like, help, oh, we'd like to help those people.

01:31:30.820 Yeah.

01:31:31.140 On the assumption that they wouldn't try to exploit the system.

01:31:34.200 I mean, it used to be a, it still is in many ways, a point of shame to be, uh, receiving

01:31:39.400 welfare from the government.

01:31:40.420 But if you don't recognize that as a cultural touchstone, why would you care?

01:31:46.480 Yeah, absolutely.

01:31:47.580 And then I'll just wrap up with this one from Roman Observer from your segment, which is

01:31:51.180 just a, we need more Caesar in this salad.

01:31:53.800 That's a great, great point.

01:31:54.720 Well, I, I just want to read two, very quickly, honourable mentions.

01:31:58.480 One from George Happ saying, happy International Men's Day.

01:32:01.500 Oh, I didn't even know.

01:32:02.060 Yes, I forgot that it was.

01:32:03.480 Happy International Men's Day to all of the chaps watching out there. 1.00

01:32:06.840 Also, Samson saying, hello, lads, watching from an onsen hot spring bath with sake and

01:32:13.580 beer in hand.

01:32:14.700 Well, I'm glad you're having a good time, Samson.

01:32:16.640 That's awesome.

01:32:17.540 That's great, man.

01:32:18.560 And a babe on each other, as well, I assume.

01:32:21.440 For Harry, I actually had lunch last week with one of the artists who worked on Silent

01:32:25.880 Hill 2 and 3, apparently, and didn't realise, a friend of one of my uni mates somehow.

01:32:30.700 That's awesome.

01:32:32.280 And PS for Luca, it's not my birthday, but can you grow the moustache back, please?

01:32:36.840 Anyway, that's all we've got time for today, ladies and gentlemen.

01:32:39.960 You can join us at 1pm tomorrow.

01:32:42.520 Hope you've enjoyed the show and enjoy the rest of your day.

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